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WPF/E is Now Silverlight
With much fanfare, Microsoft has announced Silverlight, a new cross-platform, browser independent runtime designed based on XAML and JavaScript with the potential to go head to head with Adobe Flash.
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Is XML the Future of UI Development?
Or is it JavaScript? A common trend in the new crop of desktop UI frameworks is that they are XML based with some sort of support for JavaScript. We take a brief look at AJAX, WPF/XAML, Flex/MXML, and Firefox’s Gran Paradiso.
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Visual Studio Orcas Round-Up
InfoQ has assembled a summary of the features included in the March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas. The Orcas CTP, which is expected to be released as VS 2007, can be downloaded from MSDN.
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Interview: Walt Ritscher at VSLive
InfoQ sat down with Walt Ritscher at VSLive Toronto to talk about WPF, Web 2.0, and Microsoft code naming conventions. Walt prophecies where he thinks WPF excels and who will build the killer apps in WPF. Included is a quick history on AJAX, where to use it and why it took 7 years to become relevant. Walt also shares his new favorite Windows technology, Windows PowerShell.
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Presentation: Billy Hollis on Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals
Enjoy this Billy Hollis presention on Windows Presentation Foundation. Billy begins with the the reasoning behind WPF, moves to the basics and finishes with where WPF excels as a solution set.
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WPF as a Rich Client Technology?
WPF makes it easy to create visually impressive apps, but also has other talents which make it a compelling choice as a rich client over back-ends written in any technology such as Java, Ruby, or .NET. A new article on InfoQ compares WPF to alternatives such as Ajax/DHTML, Swing, and Flash; it will also look at some scenarios where a WPF client makes sense, using Java as the back-end example.
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Channel9: .NET client with Java integration at Industrial and Financial Systems
Dan Johansson, CIO of the Swedish company Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) talks about is over all architecture and experiences, including how they integrate multiple client types (including .NET) over a J2EE backend and Oracle DB.
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WPF-E Announced
Yesterday Microsoft released the first community technology preview of WPF/E and Scott Guthrie announced it on his blog. WPF/E provides a small client-side runtime that currently support Windowsand Mac OSX. For browser support, WPF/E can run in both the FireFox and Safari web browsers providing support beyond the Internet Explorer browser.
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Presentation: Ted Neward demos WPF-Java & other .NET+Java integrations
In this presentation recorded at JAOO, Ted Neward goes into further depth on Java and .NET integration strategies, explaining how Microsoft Office can be a rich client over Java, demonstrating buiding a Windows Presentation Foundation GUI on top of Java POJOs, Windows Communications Foundation interop, and more.
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The wide ranging impact of the XML Paper Specification
XML Paper Specification, or XPS, is a new XML-based format for creating formatted documents. Seen as a direct competitor to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), it is one of the more controversial features in Windows Vista. Because it touches so much of the Windows infrastructure, it is expected to affect all users in one way or another.
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Rob Relyea weighs in on XBAP vs. ActiveX
In response to a question posed on Anne Zelenka's blog posting on the .NET 3.0 Framework launch, Rob Relyea weighs in on the comparison of XBAP to ActiveX that is being thrown around the .NET community.
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.NET Framework 3.0 RTM Posted
The RTM version of .NET 3.0 is available. This includes the redistributables and SDK for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
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Return of the Rich Client - .NET 3.0 Meets the NY Times
Listening to all the Web 2.0 hype, you would think rich client applications have gone the way of DOS and dinosaurs. But it appears that the New York Times didn't get the memo, and they have the killer app to prove it.
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Developers Petition Microsoft to Rename .NET Framework 3.0
A group of developers are petitioning Microsoft to change the name of the announced ".NET Framework 3.0" back to "WinFX" or another less-confusing name. The source of the confusion is that the .NET Framework 3.0 will still run on version 2.0 of the CLR, which many consider synonymous with "the .NET framework." The petition has 210 signatures at the time of this writing.
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.NET Live from Redmond Presentations Coming in Aug/Sept
The .NET product teams at Microsoft have announced a second series of Live Meeting presentations for .NET developers, "Live From Redmond", taking place throughout August and September. The presentations are technical in nature, rather than a marketing pitch for various new Microsoft products, as they come directly from the Product Team members at Microsoft.