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At PDC09, we discussed that our direction was to invest in improving the Silverlight XAML parser. We didn’t announce a timeframe, but I’m happy to see that this work successfully made it in time for Silverlight 4! David Poll, the Program Manager...
I’ve been exploring XamlPad and XamlDesigner features built on top of .NET 4. I plan to ship a XamlPad+ sample soon. After that, I’d like to provide guidance and/or small samples for all of the other steps to enable the Xaml Tools out there to continue...
Got a comment from Thomas Claudius Huber the other day in the middle of my post about “ MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight ”: Hi Rob, what about the Markup-Parsers? There are some differences between Silverlight and WPF XAML, e.g. <Button>Hello<...
Just stepped a developer on my team through the basics of a .csproj file, the targets it imports (Microsoft.CSharp.targets), and how targets and tasks work in msbuild. He is debugging why a Blend 3 project has a strange warning when upgrading a SketchFlow...
Sparky Dasrath writes a short post discussing XAML centric improvements in VS2010 XAML Editor and Property Grid for WPF and Silverlight developers.
DotNetRocksTV (dnrTV) just posted a discussion (with video of action in VS) with Billy Hollis that goes through a number of concepts in WPF/Silverlight layout (Grid, StackPanel, size to content), ContentControl (Button, ToolTip), and XAML (attached...
Silverlight’s XAML Vocabulary Specification has been published! On Monday (October 13th, 2008), a press release announced the availability of Silverlight 2 . Contained in that press release was the following mentions in bold about [MS-SLXV] Silverlight...
WPF Controls Actipro: PropertyGrid for WPF is almost ready - I've heard a bunch of requests for a property grid from us before. Blend/Cider use the same one, which I've asked them to ship...but there are no short term plans on that one. ...
My latest links about WPF (Apps, Controls, 3.5sp1 beta, HowTo, for LOB), Silverlight, XAML and URLs WPF Apps Expression Blog: Deep Zoom Composer Update . Yet another WPF based application shipping from MS. This one helps people author content...
WPF Applications Karsten: Using Flotzam At A Conference . That plus a cool way to pick sessions , and you've got a pretty sweet conference. Office releases their v2 of Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map . Previously blogged about...
Robby updated KaXaml (a powerful XamlPad like app) to include the ability to host a Silverlight tab! Great stuff. My feedback for Robby: Silverlight tabs will eventually want to use the xaml/presentation namespace, not client/2007. Cider and...
Just got home from a dinner with MVPs who are in town for the MVP summit. Had a bunch of good conversations...met up with a bunch of people I've known and several I hadn't met before. Earlier today I did a few demos to a VB focused audience...
Happy tax day for those of you in the US. A few queued up links of miscellaneous interest: Designer/Devloper Workflow & the integrator role Laurent Bugnion (MVP) posts about the role of WPF Integrator and how his company does it - http://geekswithblogs...
I don't know who said it first on our team during construction of the first XAML based system...perhaps Mike Hillberg , but XAML's common use is to convert "strings to things"...our treatment of the strings in attribute values plays...
Happy to see the news from Microsoft's Sam Ramji @ EclipseCon08 : Among a range of other opportunities (which we’re still working on), we discovered that Steve Northover (the SWT team lead ) had gotten requests to make it easy for Java developers...
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