Rob Relyea - XAMLified

I just added a small comment to "Why XAML is powerful" about XAML/MXML/NIB and more.

One of my pet peeves is that many WPF projects I see have a window Title of "Window1" like this:

Please pick a title that is descriptive of your application. 

In WPF, you can change your title by:

1. Select the Window object in the designer, find "title" in the property grid, and give it a good value; or
2. Open Window1.xaml and replace the value of the Title property on the Window element at the root.

Billy Hollis did a great screen cast on dnrTV recently showing off some of the great work he and his team have been doing lately with WPF.  Definitely worth a look!

• Dr. WPF blogs about his new article on CodeProject walking through D3DImage (new in WPF 3.5sp1).
• MSDN documentation: System.Windows.Interop.D3DImage

Happy to see these videos (from code.msdn.microsoft.com) showing some common scenarios with WPF for Forms over Data in VS2008.

Folks over on WindowsClient.net would like pointers to good podcasts for WPF devs...Kind of like: http://www.asp.net/learn/podcasts/ does.

Any recommendations?

As we announced back at Mix08 and TechEd08, the WPF team is working on a DataGrid and Ribbon control.  Today, we've just made the DataGrid available in CTP form on Codeplex (http://CodePlex.com/wpf).

The DataGrid will require 3.5sp1 to run.  We'd love to hear what you think...

The whole .NET Framework team is very excited to see 3.5sp1 being released today.  2 blog posts I see talking about some of the new WPF features are here:

• Andrej Tozon: "Splash Screen in 3.5sp1"
• Jeremiah Morrill: "D3DImage Video Player"

many more to come..