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WPF Application Quality Guide v.0.3 Released!
On Friday, we released the third preliminary version of the "WPF Application Quality Guide", adding a section 3 new sections: a suggested reading roadmap, a section on globalization and localization testing and a section on manual testing and Read More...

Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:52 PM by ivom | 8 Comments

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Jobs in the WPF Team
We (the WPF test team) are looking for several engineers, so I wanted to use the blog to point to the available positions in the team and give you a brief outline of the opportunities and responsibilities associated with each position.   Software Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:30 PM by ivom | 11 Comments

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WPF Application Quality Guide v.0.2 Released!
Today we are releasing the second preliminary version of the "WPF Application Quality Guide", targeted at WPF application and component developers and QA professionals. Check out the document here or download the DOC version here . This second Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:05 PM by ivom | 3 Comments

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WPF Application Quality Guide v.0.1 Released!
I am happy to announce that we have just released the first preliminary version of the "WPF Application Quality Guide". This document is targeted at WPF application developers and QA professionals. This document is a first of its kind, so we Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:57 PM by ivom | 3 Comments

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"Starter Kit" Released!
I am delighted to broadcast that earlier today our team released the " Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) Starter Kit and Reader SDK ", affectionately known as "Starter Kit". The "Starter Kit" is a generalized application Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:15 PM by ivom | 6 Comments

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WPF Application List
A couple of months ago I met with a few interns as part of a small networking event held at the Microsoft company museum . I wanted to show them a particularly cool WPF XBAP developed by an external company, but I could not remember the correct URL and Read More...

Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 1:55 PM by ivom | 3 Comments

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WPF and XAML in 10 Minutes
A couple of our evangelists (Karsten and Jaime) published an excellent paper on WPF and XAML, which is probably the most dense publication on WPF I have seen to date. A great overview of the WPF-XAML tandem in 32 quick pages. Check it out here . Read More...

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 11:47 PM by ivom | 2 Comments

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What's New in WPF 3.5?
The first version of WPF was released as part of .NET Framework 3.0 in November 2006. On 11/16/2007, we released the second version of WPF, as part of .NET Framework 3.5 (code-named Orcas). We call this WPF 3.5. WPF 3.5 has a number of exciting new features Read More...

Posted Saturday, December 08, 2007 8:21 PM by ivom | 3 Comments

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WPF-Win32 Interop Part 2: Hosting Win32 Controls (ListBox) in WPF Windows
Introduction This article describes hosting of a Win32 user control in a WPF window. It is supplemented by the following two projects, which show working examples of the material presented in the document: Win32ControlInWpfWindow_CompositeWin32Messages Read More...

Posted Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:07 PM by ivom | 3 Comments

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Attachment(s): Win32ControlInWpfWindow.zip

UI Scaling (UI Zooming) with WPF
WPF enables the application developer to apply arbitrary transforms to every UI element. This can be used to create dynamically scalable/zoomable UIs , enabling the end-user to scale the user interface of the application. Pulling off a dynamically scalable/zoomable Read More...

Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 12:32 PM by ivom | 5 Comments

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Attachment(s): ScalableUI.zip

WPF UI Test Tools
We have been asked by various customers about availability of high-level WPF UI testing tools. We will be distributing WPF test guidance and we'd like to include pointers to all available WPF testing tools, so please do let us know if you have created Read More...

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 2:21 PM by ivom | 15 Comments

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WPF-Win32 Interop Part 1: Hosting WinForms Controls (DataGridView) in WPF Windows
It's no secret that Win32 has been an extremely successful GUI platform over the past 15 or so years. The overwhelming majority of desktop components and applications for Windows in existence today are Win32-based. So although WPF is (compared to Win32) Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:46 PM by ivom | 2 Comments

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Attachment(s): WinFormsDataGridViewInWpfWindow.zip

Intro
My name is Ivo Manolov and I am the Test Manager of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) team at Microsoft. I started working at Microsoft in 2000 and have since worked on and owned the testing of various Windows components including NTUSER (the Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:41 PM by ivom | 0 Comments

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