The Windows 7 Blog for Developers

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Jasonw15 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:15:10 GMT

Working with a group of developers, we’ve all come to the conclusion that WPF is the most advanced development “Foundation” out there, and it has reached the maturity of being capable to be coded as a KEY part of an Operating System itself, and it is crucial that the backbone of the Windows 7 GUI is WPF based. People have often worried about it being too heavy on the system in terms of resources, but the recent advancements in the .NET Framework 3.5 and the additional 3.5 SP1, the performance gap is closing, and with the ability to write strings and arrays to C# (unsafe) and managed C++, you can even further improve performance in key areas where speed is critical.

However, it’s in the CLR itself that can make the transition to a WPF shell even easier, as the CLR was designed from the ground up to work alongside managed code with native C++ code. Even with a WPF backbone GUI, the flexibility of the CLR would allow you to even easily code specific and CORE GUI features in raw C++ along with the GUI still being based primarily on WPF as the backbone. It’s all based on the great flexibility of the CLR, and with the Kernel perfected; I think the Windows 7 shell is the number 1 priority.

Which started as a MSDN forum post on how to improve the WPF “TextBox” controls at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wpf/thread/9113aaf6-25fb-4d40-863a-041494aa62f5/ , there’s now been an interesting discussion started about how users really want a WPF Windows 7 GUI. All you at MS might want to take a look at it, and developers might want to comment on that forum post as well about WPF integration in Win7.

Anyway, keep up the great work MS!.... looking forward to what you have it store.

The Windows 7 Blog for Developers = yochay

Adlai Maschiach — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:51:02 GMT

The Windows 7 Blog for Developers = yochay Which the 2nd name of yochay :) , the one and only “Mr J.

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simmans — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:53:34 GMT

I wrote a document about suggestion, feats and ideas for Windows 7, and one of them is about the next Framework. I don't know a lot of details about this new Framework but like other Frameworks (and Java), the problem is the fact that the framework is heavy for the system. Then I proposed, for single users, to split the Framework into multiple part that is downloaded and/or installed automatically when an installed program need it. And for developpers, all is installed. Less heavy for the system and take less space.

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Mikael Söderström — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:54:24 GMT

What about Windows Accelerators?

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LorenHeiny — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:52:11 GMT

Good idea for a blog--this is a good step in filling a huge hole.

I'm assuming the real meat will start next week in synch with PDC and there's no reason to check back until then? :-)

Looking forward to your future posts!

Windows 7 Blog

Paul Mooney — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:18:49 GMT

The Windows 7 Blog for Developers Here is an effort to highlight the Windows 7 development story,...

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Anonymuos — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:48:40 GMT

Very good topic to start the blog. Developer focus will be very appreciated. You should also write about the Vista APIs which ppl never used/hardly used in their apps but which could have been used to write solid next generation apps.

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Mr. Dee — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:35:27 GMT

Although I'm not a developer, I looking forward to feature content that developers can use to provide great experiences for end users running Windows 7.

You need a sign in facility on the blog. I find it strange I have to go the blogs.msdn.com url to sign in then come back here.

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Alliston — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:29:29 GMT

Great idea with that blog. Well, one thing that all Windows developers (I think) are curious about is one example of the multitouch applications. How about a part of the code of that applications for first?

Thanks

Alliston Carlos

PS: excuse my english, I'm brazillian

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rjohn08 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:56:26 GMT

Greatness. I really appreciate the openness of communication with developers. This should be good.