Cool Client Stuff : Windows Vista

Mike Harsh talks about WPF/E on Channel 9

rprabhu — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:51:00 GMT

If you were at MIX'06 or the last PDC, you have probably heard of WPF/E (or WPF/Everywhere), which is a technology to support rendering a subset of XAML cross-platform and cross-browser. Well, here's your chance to find out more about it - Mike Harsh gives a great overview and then walks through some sample code in this Channel 9 video. BTW, his blog also has a great deal more content related to WPF/E.

Mike, like Joe Stegman and Mark Rideout (also PMs on the WPF/E team), used to work on .Net Client (my previous team) and Mike's office was right opposite mine. I have worked with these guys quite a bit during the VS 2005/ .NET 2.0 product cycle, and I can confidently say WPF/E is in good hands :-)

Mike, good to see you have a window office now!

Windows Forms and Avalon roadmap

rprabhu — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 03:10:00 GMT

If I am planning to write a Windows client application in the coming months, what technology should I target - Windows Forms or Avalon? This is a question that comes up every so often and results in a lengthy debate, but no clear conclusion. In an attempt to clarify, John Montgomery has posted a set of guidelines that have been reviewed by both teams. (via Chris Sells)

More on WinForms and Longhorn

rprabhu — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:22:00 GMT

I posted sometime back about WinForms and Longhorn/Avalon and what the migration path is going to look like. Chris Sells has posted a link to a book that has a chapter dedicated to this topic. Note especially that the programming models introduced in Whidbey for things like Client Settings (see my earlier description) and deployment (ClickOnce) will continue to be used in the Longhorn/Avalon timeframe.

PDC sessions available online!

rprabhu — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:46:00 GMT

View them here.

Windows Forms and Longhorn

rprabhu — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:24:00 GMT

It appears many PDC attendees seem to have questions like:

WinFX is wonderful and all that, but do you guys have anything I can use before the Longhorn timeframe?
Hey, I just moved to .NET and started writing Windows Forms apps. Are you telling me this stuff is going to be obsolete?

BradA has addressed these questions in his newsgroup post, but I would like to reiterate here so that the message is clear.

Windows Forms is a part of the WinFX API stack in Longhorn. Your Windows Forms apps will run great on Longhorn and will be fully able to utilize its capabilities like Indigo and WinFS.
As PDC attendees will learn from this talk, there will be a great interop story between Avalon and Windows Forms. Windows Forms apps will be able to host Avalon controls and vice versa.
There are a ton of cool new features in Windows Forms in .NET Framework Whidbey, as well as some remarkable design time improvements. Check out all the Windows Forms sessions at the PDC.
You can use the cool new features of Windows Forms and develop apps that run not only on Longhorn, but on current and previous generation Windows OSes too.
Heard of ClickOnce, the new client application deployment technology? That will be available in the Whidbey timeframe for Windows Forms applications.

So get on to managed code today and write client apps using Windows Forms - its a great step towards WinFX and Longhorn!

Finally!

rprabhu — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:01:00 GMT

With the first day of the PDC drawing to a close, there is a bunch of information being made available publicly about Windows Longhorn and Visual Studio/.Net Framework Whidbey. Hopefully, everybody can now see why people at Microsoft seem to be so excited about these products :-)

I can't wait to start blogging about all the cool new features we are delivering in Whidbey!