Nick on Silverlight and WPF

2.2 Expressions -- Dynamic resources and data binding {Binding} and {DynamicResource} both create instances of Expression. In a lot of ways, Expressions are just another kind of value for the WPF property engine to deal with. You can pass them into SetValue...

A while back I posted something about how the property engine calculates its values. Figured I would post an update, since we've continued to refine the property engine, and we've continued to refine the documentation... Calculation is a multi-step...

One interesting thing you won't find in the XPS spec I pointed to is how to declare that one assembly is a later version of another assembly. This will be described in the formal xaml spec Rob is working on, but the quick description is you stick the...

One of the things we haven't talked a lot about is the versioning support built into xaml. Once version 2 of WPF comes out, we want people to be able to write xaml documents that take advantage of new, V2 features while still running as best is possible...

I haven't been real good about reposting questions that came up in private conversation, here's some of the more interesting ones from the last month: What's the deal with OLE and WPF? Short answer is, we don't have any plans for something like OLE...