Mike Harsh's Blog

I've made some updates to the first version of WPF/E Pad I posted last week. The new version has the following changes: Enhanced readability by lightening the background color of the XAML textarea Modifed the loading logic to download one XAML...

Richard Leggett, co-author of Flash Applications for Mobile Devices , has written a nice commentary on WPF/E and how it fits into the RIA ecosystem. He's also posted a set of cool samples and a few development hints . Gotta love that winter card example...

Late last year, one of the first WPF/E samples that our team created was a XAML pad type web page that you could paste XAML into and it would load that into the WPF/E control. This sample highlighted the fact that WPF/E content can be entirely text based...

My good friend Robby Ingebretsen from IdentityMine has written a little WPF/E drawing app . I dig it. It serves as an excellent reminder of why I always brought home D's in handwriting.

After almost 5 days without power (yeah, it was cold), Puget Sound Energy brought the power back to my house in Redmond. In that time, a handful of new WPF/E samples and blog posts have popped up. Lee Brimelow has recreated the banner on his WPF blog...

I've had a few requests to post an updated version of the WPF/E clock sample that was shown at Mix '06. The sample is here and source can be found here .

Simon Allerdice har written another WPF/E sample . This one records mouse movements on a surface, stores the recording on the server and then plays back the last four user's recordings. This sample uses ASP.NET AJAX to store the recodings.

Mike Taulty has built a sample with 12 MediaElements all playing back at the same time, with a mouse over animation on each element. Trippy.

Simon Allerdice has written a WPF/E egg timer app as a first sample. Check it out .

Last week, a group of ASPInsiders were on campus and I presented a session on WPF/E. For this session, I updated the simple ASP.NET server control we showed at Mix '06 this year. This control makes it easier to integrate WPF/E into ASP.NET pages. The...

Earlier in the week I posted about some issues with the WPF/E Visual Studio project template installer. John Rayner has put together a WPF/E project template that does not require Web Application Projects. Very nice.

In a few newsgroup posts on our forums , I’ve seen some confusion about what WPF/E CTP enables and what it doesn’t. This is probably a result of the snappy codename we’ve chosen, but I’ll attempt to add some clarity. WPF/E is a subset of WPF, but the...

Chandu Thota has written an ASP.NET page the accepts a video URL in the querystring and loads the video in a WPF/E player. If you wrap this in an iframe, you can embed the player in a blog post. Expect to see many samples like this one to pop with...

Peter Blois is a membere of the Expression team who's been working closly with our team on WPF/E tool support. He's written a nice WPF/E vector art viewer sample .

Lee has put together a sample showing Flash interacting with WPF/E . Very cool to see the two technologies playing together. And I think this is the first non-MS WPF/E sample to show up on the intertron. Update: Lee has created an even cooler integration...

Shawn helps demystify "WPF/E" . This is good stuff. One note, the Mac installer is larger than 1MB. This is due to the fact we're using universal binaries to support both PPC and Intel Macs.

The Visual Studio project template that is part of the SDK requires that the Web Application Projects update for VS 2005 is installed. This udpate is not supported by the Express edition of Visual Web Developer . Also, the current template installer doesn...

Last week Lee Brimelow compared an animation running in Flash and WPF . Now that the "WFP/E" CTP is out, one of the developers on our team put this together a "WPF/E" version of that animation to try out as well. Click the image below to run the sample...

Wow, so much news today..... Adam Kinney has been busy playing with "WPF/E" and he has written a video player that can best be described as the new hotness. This sample uses animations extensivly and uses the windowless mode on the browser plug-in...

Mike Swanson has updated his Illustrator XAML expoter for "WPF/E". Check it out at: http://www.mikeswanson.com/XAMLExport/

Ryan has a good post about "WPF/E" up at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=188 . Ryan states that the "WPF/E" client is under 2 megs. FWIW, the the current version of the "WPF/E" Windows client is 1.05 MB.

For the last 6 months we've been quiet about the progress our team has been making. Today, the first "WPF/E" CTP build is live and folks can play with the plug-in themselves. This post is about getting started with "WPF/E" development. Future posts will...