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February 2007 - Posts

WPF and Orcas

(No, that's not a whale reference...) Today we released a fresh CTP of the next release of Visual Studio (codenamed "Orcas" - it's one of the San Juan islands that are a bit further out from Redmond than Whidbey Island...). I wouldn't normally take the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:32 PM by tims | 15 Comments

WPF Chat Transcript #2 Now Available

Thanks to the 120+ of you who showed up for the second technical chat with the WPF and Expression Blend teams. We really enjoyed hosting you all; the chat transcript is now available here . Read More...
Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 5:32 PM by tims | 1 Comments

Great WPF Applications #11: Areva e-terravision

I've been trying with this series to satisfy the desire we all have for instant gratification by including plenty of applications that you can download and try out with just a couple of clicks. But of course, not every application fits into that category: Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:12 PM by tims | 0 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #10: Daily Mail, Seattle P-I, forbes.com, New York Times

I've been holding off from highlighting the New York Times Reader as one of the applications in my portfolio for a few weeks, even though it clearly is a polished example of how WPF can transform user experience. Today, we can finally reveal one more Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:18 AM by tims | 21 Comments

Virtual PC Museum 2007

As Mike Swanson mentions in his blog, Virtual PC 2007 was released this week as a free download. This isn't a revolutionary release, but it's notable for its support for Windows Vista as both a guest and host OS, as well as x64 architecture host support. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:07 AM by tims | 19 Comments
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Digg for WPF

What would Digg look like if it focused exclusively on WPF? Probably this ... Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:27 PM by tims | 3 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #9: Scripps Institute Cancer Research

I'm behind on my write-ups of great WPF applications, and they're stacking up. Sorry! The next application I want to feature is one that has real purpose, in that it's being used by medical researchers at the Scripps Institute who are working on potential Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:56 PM by tims | 14 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #8: NoteScraps

I love this little application: it's a joyous example of how the subtle use of WPF can add greatly to an application experience. NoteScraps is a handy little tool for jotting down little nuggets of unstructured information - when you're on the phone and Read More...
Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 2:56 PM by tims | 8 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #7: Skandia Cowes Week CourseSetter

I wanted to draw attention to this one, because it's such a fun usage of WPF. Each summer, the Solent waters (between the British mainland and the Isle of Wight) are host to a world-class sailing regatta with a thousand boats racing in forty different Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:17 PM by tims | 1 Comments
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WPF / Expression Technical Chat: February 21st

We had a pretty successful online technical chat in December , where we brought about twenty members of the WPF team together to answer your technical questions and listen to your feedback. Based on the response, we're going to host a similar event at Read More...
Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 2:44 PM by tims | 5 Comments
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New Screencast Show on WPF and Expression

The first show of a potentially great new series on WPF and Expression has just hit the wires . Andrew and Dax are going to do a series of screencasts covering the use of .NET Framework 3.0 presentation technologies over the next few months. In this first Read More...
Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 8:20 AM by tims | 3 Comments

Great WPF Applications #6: fnac.com

If you want to see a contrasting online shopping experience to Otto , you could do worse than look at fnac.com. FNAC are in many ways the French equivalent of Best Buy, selling all things electronic: cameras, MP3 players, televisions, PCs. To coincide Read More...
Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 2:12 PM by tims | 7 Comments
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Google, Share Prices and Ads

Seeing Google announce quarterly earnings nearly triple their results for the same quarter of last year (they now have an annual revenue of $10 billion, almost entirely from selling ads), it suddenly occurred to me that I have never once deliberately Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:54 PM by tims | 21 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #5: TF1

I'm slightly accelerating the pace of these articles from the planned daily push, simply because there are just so many to cover. From the moment I pushed out the first entry in this series, I started to receive emails from people around the company and Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:52 PM by tims | 3 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #4: Otto

Although you may not have heard of them by name, Otto Group are a huge retail conglomerate with €9b of revenues in 2005/6; they own retail outlets like Crate and Barrel in the US as well as catalog companies like Grattan and Freemans in the UK and the Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:00 AM by tims | 20 Comments
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