Arik Cohen

Hi folks,

I'm looking forward to presenting about WPF at Tech Ed New Zealand and Tech Ed Australia in a few weeks.

I'll be presenting two talks:

• (200 Level) Developing a Windows Presentation Foundation Application
• (300 Level) Preparing for the Future: Integration between Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms

In Auckland I believe the talks are currently scheduled for Wed Aug 23.  In Sydney the talks will be on Friday Aug 25.

Any particular areas you'd like me to cover?  Want to meet and chat about WPF? Let me know!

Next week, I'll be at TechEd Israel and will be giving a few talks around WPF.  In particular I'll be covering two main topic areas:

• A Developers Overview Of Windows Presentation Foundation -- I'll cover the basics and show some finished applications.  Should be a good intro for folks who haven't seen any WPF -- and I hope to show some good demos of many of the features (and some of the partners) that will be using WPF.
• Interoperability with Windows Forms.  I'll cover the details around "Crossbow" (the WPF/Windows Forms integration layer). I'll also cover some of the challenges around mixing content -- and try to explain enough about the WPF architecture to explain what the differences are.

Anything else people would like me to cover? Anybody going to be there and have additional questions around WPF? I'd love to meet up...

WinFX enthusiasts and early adopters have probably noticed by now the Go-Live agreements that are available for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) with the recent January CTP of WinFX – and are probably wondering why there isn’t a program for Windows Presentation Foundation?

As one of the key folks involved in making that decision – one of the main reasons was around the differences between server and client based scenarios. WCF and WF have more of a server-based scenario, where the bits get deployed in fairly controlled environments such as enterprises. This controlled environment allows for easy recovery of the state of the machines via critical updates, in the event something goes wrong. Hence it made sense for these technologies to have a Go-Live. WPF has more of a client-based scenario, where the bits get deployed on a great number of consumer PCs. You as developers or ISVs may not always be able to restore the state of your customers'/consumers' PC via Microsoft critical updates, in the event something goes wrong. Given the differences between a server-based scenario and client-based scenario – we wanted to make sure that we had the appropriate coverage across the breadth of machines so that people will have a great experience with the applications that are available with the Go-Live license.

Will there be a WPF Go-Live?  Definitely.  Stay tuned for more information.

Let me know any other questions and comments about this and I'll do my best to answer.

Hi there.  After 2+ years of threatening to start a blog... I've finally done it.  Now let's see if I can stay with it.

A brief intro

My name is Arik Cohen and I am a Program Manager on the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as "Avalon") team.  My main areas of responsibility are in release management (all the craziness around schedules and timeframes) and community/customer engagement.  I have spent nearly the last 3 years trying to get other folks on the team to respond to customer questions, comments and concerns via the newsgroups, forums and blogs.  I decided I might finally have something to say that's worthwhile.

I've been at Microsoft since graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 and have had a variety of roles (working on MSN Sidewalk, MSN Shopping and Windows XP Plus! Pack among them).