WPF/E - Some questions

I am all excited about WPF/E Community Preview release. I tried the different demos Michael Schwarz has listed, and it's looking really promising. I am more a Web developer than a Windows one, and it's amazing the number of things I can now iagine to do with WPF/E. Of course, like Flash, an advice would be probably to not transform everything in WPF/E but to keep it for some specific tasks.

However few questions I have in mind:

- Can Microsoft choose a better catchy name than WPF/E? Sounds like more the reference of a manufactured product than an attractive name for a technology. Think that Flash is already taken ;-). I still think like others that Avalon was a cool name.

- I noticed that without too much efforts, I can 'steal' most of the demos code. Wonder if it's possible to secure more the source code, including some of the Javascript involved in some demos?

- Of course I know it's a CTP release, but if I try to open more than 3 demos in IE 6, it finish quickly by a browser crash.

 I showed the cool demos to some of my colleagues, and they are please to know that I can finally embed some nice animations in our web projects. I like Flash, but I got so many issues with it that I almost decline any development including it. A good point is also that I can continue to develop using the same Visual Studio.

I believe I will use Expression Designer some time in 2007 and start to develop some cool games and animations for the primary schools here in Ireland.

Merry Christmas!

 

2 Comments

  • Hi, yes, the current CTP is very buggy. I attended yesterday evening the WPF talk, and it was very interessting, what others are thinking about WPF and WPF/E. The missing controls (or custom control feature) in WPF/e is one thing that most developers are asking for.

    What I asked about is if there will be a binary format for the XAML which can be very fast grow to something like 1 MB! I will post on my blog about more WPF/E features next. ;)

    And one discussion was why the Expression tools are not in the MSDN. Maybe they think about it and we get it next year as a late Christmas gift, who knows.

    Michael

  • WPF/E is just a codename, a placeholder until the final official name is announced, just like "Avalon" and "Indigo" were codenames that we have forgotten now.

Comments have been disabled for this content.