Smart Clients from Greece?

jimmytr — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:20:00 GMT

Microsoft Code Name "Acropolis" has finally been released to the public as a technology preview.

Having played with some internal releases it has become clear to me what a huge amount of work the team has put into this technology. I would like to congratulate with this important milestone and will obviously help getting customer feedback.

Features included in Acropolis CTP1 includes:

- Declarative Composition - allows you to declarative program the structure of application components

- Navigation support - manages activation and deactivation of components

- Document Life Time support - manages the life time of a document bject

- Layout Pane - Split style and tab style UI layout that leverages WPF

- Transition Animation - Prepackage transitions built on WPF

... and all these comes with Application Design Time Support!

Go get your copy here and please provide feedback to our hard-working team in Redmond.

Note: The CTP1 requires the Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" to run - get it here

WPF/E - Cool graphics everywhere

jimmytr — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:05:57 GMT

The first public drop of our new WPF/E has been made available as a Community Technical Preview.

What is it anyway?

"WPF/E is the Microsoft solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for the Web and beyond."

In it's first incarnation it runs in the browser and requires a lightweight plug-in much like the way the Macromedia Flash player works.

The dev center for this can be found on MSDN, where pointers do documentation, samples, videos and the actual CTP download are available.

Download today and provide feedback to the hard working team behind this interesting technology.

Jimmy Rasmussens Blog : WPF

Smart Clients from Greece?

WPF/E - Cool graphics everywhere