Interesting win-back from the browser for WPF.  Whats are the two take-aways for public sector developers and decision makers?  First, user experience has a huge impact on adoption.  This is an example of Software Plus Services at work.  Its not something that Microsoft invented, its something that we noticed.  ...

  The Patterns & Practices team has recently released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF which provides guidance for ''componetizing'' the development of enterprise-class WPF applications across multiple development teams, with each team owning a piece of the application, and then seamlessly integrating these pieces into one ...

I'm a big believer that WPF is a great UI technology for LOB applications.  Yes, there are some shortcomings in the designer experience if you compare the WPF designer to the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 2008.  Yes, WPF is missing some controls that people expect like a DataGrid and DatePicker, but there are solutions.  ...

Thanks to everyone who stuck around for my "Defy Occasionally-Connected Challenges With Smart Client Applications" session at the DC Launch.  The deck and demo files are available here: Deck Workflow Services Demo Sync Services for ADO.NET Demo Server Database The demos require Visual Studio 2008 and depend on a SQL Server 2005 ...

Come see a demo-rich overview of the new features Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” has to offer for Smart Client Windows Applications. This talk will introduce new client services that allow your applications to authenticate users providing role-based UI, and be occasionally connected with offline data storage. It will also demonstrate how you can ...

Enhancements include: Windows Presentation Foundation interoperability CAB extensions  and View with presenter recipe Offline application blocks and recipes; the application blocks support asynchronous calls to WCF web services. Richer ClickOnce Deployment capabilities Enhanced guidance packages which includes code generation Visual ...

As promised, you can get my decks and demos from www.publicsectordeveloper.com (direct link).  The demos are ''as-is'' but feel free to let me know if something doesn't work anymore. A more detailed explanation of the WPF deck and demos can be found here.  If you are interested in WPF, then don't forget to check out the WPF ...

Actipro software has release their Actipro Ribbon WPF control.  You can learn more about it here.  There's a live XBAP demo here. -Marc

I was catching up on some blog reading and came across two posts that I think those of you interested in the 3D feature of WPF will find helpful: Bootcamp Lecture deck from the WPF 3D Team Blog New Lab Posted: Creating 3D Content with Windows Presentation Foundation -Marc

I just finished reading this article over at ars technica.  Developers always ask me ''why Vista if WPF works just fine on XP SP2?''  WPF on Vista is a better experience because of the ''plumbing'' you will read about in this article. I think this article does an excellent job explaining the history of how and why versions of Windows ...