Friends of Client Development Newsletter – April 2006

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WinForms Website Updated

If you’ve been to http://www.windowsforms.net lately, you’ll notice several changes and updates.   We’ve embarked on a website update project to update the Information Architecture to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for and to add fresh, new content to the site.   You’ll see several new articles written by community members highlighted on the main page as well as new whitepapers written by our team on the ‘Get Started’ page.  Check it out today!   And, if you’re an author of WinForms-related articles on other sites, be sure to submit your new article to our listings.

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Current Projects - Update

Last month, we gave an overview of several projects we’re working on.   Here’s a brief update on the Crossbow project:

Crossbow is the code name for the interoperability layer between Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).  The Client framework runtime, including Crossbow will now ship along with WPF.   Last week, the project reached an important internal milestone that means our plans remain on track and we’re steadily improving quality along the way to our first Beta release.    You can see more about Crossbow in Mike Henderlight’s webcast.

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ClickOnce

If you’re a fan of ClickOnce apps, Saurabh Pant’s blog features several excellent discussions on ClickOnce applications.    His latest post covers ClickOnce behavior in the FireFox browser.

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Upcoming Events

6/11-16 – TechEd, Boston, MA (www.microsoft.com/TechEd).  - Tech·Ed is Microsoft’s largest annual conference for providing IT professionals and developers with technical training, information and resources to build, deploy and manage solutions with currently shipping and near-term Microsoft technologies.

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