My WindowsClient.net Era - 3rd blog is a charm?
Hello, my name is Rob Relyea. I'm an Architect on the WPF and Xaml Language teams @ Microsoft.
I'm almost 5 years into blogging about WPF/Xaml and I still couldn't be more excited about what I'm working on here at Microsoft with a bunch of great people. 2008 now sees Microsoft delivering:
- native support in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF projects, designing WPF pages, and Xaml editing. This has come a long way since the early builds of "Fidalgo" (VS Extensions for WPF) that I helped scrape together back in 2003. Still a bunch of other great things to do for VS users...
- a suite of tools for media/content/interactive design with Microsoft Expression.
- WPF 3.5 (inside .Net 3.0 SP1, Windows Vista SP1, and .Net Framework 3.5) - our 2nd version of the Windows Presentation Foundation.
- Silverlight 1.0 on the market - great support for Media, Animations, and Vector Graphics (consistent with WPF) in the browser (and X-platform!)
- Silverlight 2.0 anticipation is an all time high.
- The Xaml Language is seeing success represent UI with WPF & Silverlight. Paper with XPS. Workflow descriptions with Windows Workflow Foundation. More to come...
This starts the 4th era of my work on WPF:
- Quiet Era (Jan 2001 - October 2003) Quietly working away on "Avalon", previewing to a few close partners, but no blogging!
- Alpha Era - LonghornBlogs.com (October 2003 - April 2006) I first started blogging about WPF (then codenamed "Avalon") during the 2003 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) @ longhornblogs.com - that site when through a name change and is now Windows-Now.com - my older content is still @ http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/rrelyea.
- V3 Era - Spaces.Live.com (started April 2006) I then moved my blogging to MSN Spaces, since renamed to Windows Live Spaces. http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
- WindowsClient.net Era (starting February 2008) Now, I'm dipping my toes into another blog...considering if I want another move, or not. http://windowsclient.net/rob_relyea
Glad to continue the conversation!