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I'm not the expert on VS LightSwitch, but I know several people who are: Jay , Beth , and more... Tim Anderson writes " Ten things you need to know about Microsoft's Visual Studio LightSwitch ". Notice he mentions LightSwitch's use...
Happy to see more great detail from the VS team about how they have used WPF and XAML in the building of VS2010. Matthew writes in great detail about the windowing system with: “ WPF in VS 2010 – Part 5: Window Management ”. As part of that, he details...
The Ribbon Control is important for many apps. As such, Microsoft is trying to make sure that whether you are building a WPF application or a native Windows application (win32) or a MFC based application, that you have strong Ribbon services. WPF...
Dear XAML Nation: My days, like many of you, are filled with work with XAML. This space gets more exciting every year! I wanted to do a brain dump of our current work items, plans, etc… We first unveiled most of this information at our...
I worked with a part of the VS2010 team recently to improve XamlReader.Load performance for an important scenario. It was taking 120ms to load a XAML file and create the objects that it specified. It seemed like the XAML was a bit verbose...
Given another 4 years of experience since I wrote “ Our 7 Goals for XAML ”, here is my updated list of XAML Benefits: XAML Describes Data in a Concise, but Human and Machine Comprehensible, Way Declarative formats provide the best and most concise way...
WPF Apps Carlos Quintero: Visual Studio 2010 PDC session: customizing and extending your developing environment . Scott Guthrie announced at PDC that VS2010 would have Shell UI and code editor made with WPF. This session goes into some details…...
At PDC 08, Daniel Roth and I had a great time sharing info about the next wave of XAML goodness coming to .NET 4. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL36/ has the full video (also the powerpoint is downloadable)…about 60 minutes of presentation and demo...
Silverlight’s XAML Vocabulary Specification has been published! On Monday (October 13th, 2008), a press release announced the availability of Silverlight 2 . Contained in that press release was the following mentions in bold about [MS-SLXV] Silverlight...
10/31/2008 Update: The talk is over now...I summarize and link to the video of the talk here: PDC08 News: XAML in .NET 4: XAML2009 & System.Xaml.dll I’m very excited about the XAML talk that Daniel Roth and I are giving at PDC08 this October. Althought...
I just added a small comment to " Why XAML is powerful " about XAML/MXML/NIB and more.
Josh Twist would like to see .config move over to be XAML based. XAML for Config (theJoyOfCode.com) - "Type checking, extensibility... oh the joy." Pointer to previous post (added 2008/04/16) Actually, in an old blog post , I had pointed toward...