WPF Ribbon has been released on MS Downloads . Enjoy it! Highlights: New Controls – We have numerous new controls in this release of Ribbon such as, RibbonGallery, RibbonComboBox, RibbonMenuButton, RibbonSplitButton, QuickAccessToolbar...

Micrsoft WPF Testing team has just released the TestApi v0.5, which includes a few new additions and updates including: Combinatorial Variation Generation API - added supports for generics and declarative models (attribute-based models) Fault...

This morning we officially released the VS 2010 and .NET 4.0!!! You can Download a full trial version here or buy it here , and Watch live videos here . To view a list of features supported by various VS versions, go here . A few performance...

To find out more details about the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools: http://www.microsoft.com/express/phone/ . Windows Phone Developer Tools includes: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator Silverlight for Windows...

The WPF team is excited to release the February 2010 version of the WPF Toolkit ! Other than the WPF controls relased in previous releases, this release also includes 3 preview controls: AutoCompleteBox, Accordion, Rating. You can download the latest...

Microsoft WPF team has released the TestApi v0.3 with various new additions and updates to the common testing API library . The new APIs and updates include: Managed code fault injection API Combinational variation generation API New application...

WPF Application Quality Guide v0.5 has been released today at the WindowsClient.NET with new topics and updates! Please check out the headline at the Featured News section, view the guide online or download a word doc for viewing offline! This release...

WPF Test team just released the TestApi v.0.2 ! “TestApi” is a set of standalone libraries to enable WPF developers to test their applications and controls more effectively and efficiently. This latest release includes the following additions: AutomatedApplication...

It's been a while since the last post was online. We have been very busy in working on one of the very fun and important features for our WPF 4 release, and I will post more details about the feature later. While taking short breaks, I've noticed a...

WPF Application Quality Guide v0.4 has been released today at the WindowsClient.NET with new topics and updates! Check out the headline at the Featured News section, view the guide content online or download a word doc for viewing offline! This...

I am very excited to introduce the TestApi v.0.1 to you - Microsoft WPF Test team has just released the v.0.1 version of the Test APIs! To find out the details and download the APIs source code, samples, and API documentation at http://codeplex.com/TestApi...

WPF team's PM Architect Rob Relyea wrote up a good post today summarizing the benefits of XAML for UI and beyond, including some new changes in XAML2009. Check it out here for more details.

We've made the WPF sources for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 available today through download of Visual Studio 2008. Here is a list of available components: List of available assemblies NPWPF.dll ReachFramework.dll PenImc.dll...

WPF Application Quality Guide v0.3 has been released on 09/26/08 (last Friday) at the WindowsClient.NET! It is a guide that we hope upon completion can be a one-stop shop for guidance and best practices to improve product quality and testability of WPF...

VisualStateManager, a.k.a. VSM, I quote our WPF architect John Gossman's words from the architectural view: VisualStateManager, by providing an abstraction of a VisualState, makes unifying the deskop and web models much more straightforward. While...

One of our development managers, Dwayne Need, just posted a blog about WPF layered window, it includes intro about layered windows in WPF, code snippents for using the feature, hittesting considerations, performance implications, and also talked about...

We had a good thread today at the office about the content scrolling in WPF applications (controls, DataGrid, etc.), and one of our devs, Ben Carter , had a response that I thought is golden and would like to share with you: Here are a variety of ways...

Yes, Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 has been released! Here are a few important links for your c onvenience: · Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 · Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Readme · Visual Studio...

WPF is proud to introduce the new DataGrid control and our control improvements for 3.5 SP1! In 3.5 SP1, the WPF Controls team invested heavily in improvements to our controls infrastructure to enable a performant, full-featured DataGrid in our next release...

The WPF team has just released the WPF Application Quality Guide v0.2 today, here is an online version and here is a word doc with same content. This release has an easy-to-navigate TOC structure, additional samples and content such as general testing...

The “WPF Application Quality Guide v 0.1” white paper is live online at the WindowsClient.NET site today! It’s a guide that we hope upon completion can be a one-stop shop for guidance and best practices to improve product quality and testability for WPF...

WPF Team just released the " Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) Starter Kit and Reader SDK " today with full source code and a sample app. Check it out!

The sample solution has 3 projects: one is a Custom Control Library that currently include 2 custom controls, both of them have UI Automation support buit-in; the 2nd is a WPF application that is using these 2 custom controls; the 3rd project is a tester...