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Tim Anderson attended Joe's session at Mix '06 and spoke with Forest Key, Director of Developer Tools Product Management at Microsoft. His article can be found here . One of the best insights Tim has is the complimentary nature of WPF/E's two programming...

The slides for Joe Stegman's WPF/E talk are attached to this post.

There have been a few blog posts popping up about WPF/E, but Ben Galbraith's over at Ajaxian is the best so far. He attended Joe's session and filtered out the important details with good accuracy.

I know, it's been a long while since I've posted. Last October, after Windows Forms 2.0 shipped, I left DevDiv and started working on the WPF/E team. It's been an intense ride so far, but our product is really starting to take shape. So what is WPF...

I've been getting a few questions and comments about this sample I wrote a few months back so I figured I'd talk about it here. When we shipped v1.0 of the .NET Framework and VS.NET 2002, many customers asked for a way to put their forms into "design...

Stuart Celarier and the good folks at MSDN who run the Smart Client Dev Center have posted a very comprehensive Windows Forms FAQ . It has all the info from George Sheperd's Syncfusion FAQ, all the information from the old http://windowsforms.net FAQ...

In my post last week, Is Windows Forms Dead? , I stated that: “ From an innovation perspective, Whidbey is almost certain to be the last full-blown feature version of Windows Forms. Any post-Whidbey release is likely to contain only tactical features...

Please keep in mind that this is just my opinion and view from the trenches. It in no way represents the any official position. Over the last year, whenever we'd visit customers, the Avalon question always came up. The response we repeated over and over...

Many customers have been complaining about the lack of new articles, samples and excitement around VS.NET 2003. This http://windowsforms.net forums post is an example. Great language skills aside, he makes a point. A very significant portion of new MSDN...

One of the prototyping guys at MS, Roland Fernandez, has created a VS.NET 2003 add-in to make multi-threaded programming easier. The premise is that you write your app just as you normally would if it was all running on the UI thread, then adorn the...

This sample, written by Joe Stegman, allows users to create XML Form definitions and then instatiate those Forms at runtime. This is similar in concept to Xamlon but more generic in that it can also be used to declare any managed type. The basis for wfml...

In VS.NET that is. If you’ve got a sharp eye, you’ve probably noticed that some dialogs in VS have normal 23 pixel high buttons and some dialogs have 26 pixel high buttons. The reason? It turns out that 15% makes a difference. ...

Shawn posted a mini-rant / tip about not subscring to your own events. I've got to post a small rebuttal. In general, not subscribing to your own events is a good coding practice, if not a huge perf win as Chris Sells points out in the post's comments...

Mark Rideout, one of the User Education (UE) folks on the Windows Forms team has posted a survey to the windowsforms.net forums . Check it out and tell us how you use docs so we can make the language filter better. Also, keep in mind that any changes...

I posted a comment to ScottW's weblog about sealing classes and it got me thinking about breaking changes. A breaking change is a typically defined as a change made to an API, or an API's behavior that would cause code compiled on one version of...

It turns out that California is warm and clear. Two adjectivs rarely applied to the state of Washington. My girlfriend Jeannine came out to WA for her spring break and we drove down to Napa to drink and well.... not work. :) Highlights of the trip...

Apparently talking about the new Office 11 beta is all the rage , so I'll throw my 2 bits in the mix. Outlook As a PM, I use Outlook far more than the other Office apps. I have to admit that with beta 1, had my doubts about the viability of offline...

Halo is rapidly becoming a tradition at MS. All over the company XBOX's are being setup with the sole purpose of playing halo. Many teams have their rig subsidized by their morale budget. We on the Windows Forms team wanted a more exclusive experience...

After three weeks and a dozen meetings, the threat models for all 7 feature specs I own are finished. Weight off shoulders.

Confession time. I'm into yo-yoing. ChrisAn references it here . Also check out a recent skill toy related project ErickE, Chris and I worked on. And if you're looking to get your mind bent, check out grind slave (make sure to right click and save to...

As you probably know, I run our team's public website, http://windowsforms.net . If you're doing any client programming with the .NET Framework or Visual Studio .NET, then http://windowsforms.net/forums is a great place to get your questions answered...

Is this thing on? After a night of Halo at ErickE's, where every other word out of ChrisAn's mouth was "blog", I mailed ScottW and he hooked me up with a blog on this site. That was about 2 weeks ago. Chalk the delay between then and now up to procrastination...