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  • WPF vs. Silverlight – What Really is the Difference?

    As both WPF and Silverlight increase in importance, the confusion about the difference between the two has also increased. Back in June Wintellect released an incredibly important whitepaper on the topic titled "Microsoft WPF-Silverlight Comparison Whitepaper". While we recommend developers read all of it, we offer you a summary of the major ones that impact line-of-business developers.

  • What’s new in WPF 4.0?

    WPF 4.0 will be adding new controls, Pixel Shader 3.0, and a completely rewritten text rendering pipeline. These and other features will find their way into Visual Studio 2010, expected early next year.

  • Serious Memory Leaks Plague WPF

    WPF, also known as Windows Presentation Foundation, represents the future of UI on the Windows platform. And if Microsoft has its way, its younger sibling Silerlight will take over the web and mobile markets. But like any new technology, it has some issues to work through including some rather serious memory leaks.

  • Screenshots of Visual Studio 2010 with WPF UI

    Jason Zander, General Manager of Visual Studio, posted the first images of Visual Studio 2010 where WPF is used to render the Visual Studio UI. Users will be able to try this for themselves in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 coming later this year.

  • PRISM 2 Supports Silverlight

    Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0, a.k.a. PRISM 2, has been released on Microsoft Downloads. This release offers guidance for building Silverlight client applications as well as guidance for reusing code between WPF applications and Silverlight ones.

  • CSLA .NET 3.6 Supports Silverlight 2.0

    The Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture for .NET (CSLA .NET) version 3.6 has been released including support for Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. CSLA .NET is a .NET software development framework which helps one to “build a powerful, maintainable business logic layer for Windows, Web, service-oriented and workflow applications”.

  • Update on the .NET Reference Source

    With the release of the 3.5/SP 1 source code for WPF, we take the opportunity to look at what's been going in the realm of .NET Source.

  • Crack.NET – Like Greasemonkey for WinForms and WPF Applications

    Using tools like Greasemonkey, users are able to extend many web applications whether or not the site owners want them to. With Crack.NET, that same level of user control can be achieved over WinForm and WPF-based .NET applications.

  • WPF Designer Hotfix for VS 2008 SP 1

    If you are working with WPF and do not already have Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you should consider downloading this hotfix. It fixes several bugs in the WPF designer, at least two of which complete crashes Visual Studio.

  • Book Spotlight: Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed

    Mike Snell and Lars Powers tackle developer productivity with their recent book "Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed" by Sams Publishing. Included is a sample chapter for download, Chapter 10 on Debugging.

  • Presentation: Building Smart Windows Applications

    In this demo driven presentation, Daniel Moth explores the new features of .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to create rich Windows clients. There are many opportunities for creating a rich application that runs client-side capitalizes on server-side investments.

  • Robert Bell on Java and Silverlight Interop

    Robert Bell, Microsoft Solution Architect, introduces interoperability scenarios for using Silverlight from Java and provides architectural guidance using sample code snippets.

  • Talking with Ivan Porto Carrero about IronNails

    A new project has been created for developers using IronRuby to write applications with a Ruby on Rails like experience. The project is called IronNails and is ready for developers to give it a go today.

  • An Introduction to the Composite Application Library

    Microsoft patterns & practices has recently made available the Composite Application Guidance for WPF. A key component of this guidance is the Composite Application Library, a library useful to create composite WPF applications.

  • The Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Is Available for Download

    Microsoft has just released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF-June 2008, also known as Prism.

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