Archive for February, 2008

.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap

Wednesday, 20. February 2008 12:51

A few minutes ago I read a nice article on ScottGu's blog, published on Tuesday, February 19, 2008. In this article he wrote about the future improvements and features, addressed to the client development in .NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008. [...]

Category: WPF | Comments (0) | Author: Fabian

My first (small) WPF project

Tuesday, 19. February 2008 21:24

Hello everybody,

after my birthday last weekend and over two weeks without any article posted, I think it's time to go on with the WPF article series and with my first little "hello world" project. [...]

Category: Projects, WPF | Comments (0) | Author: Fabian

Some alternatives to XamlPad

Saturday, 2. February 2008 17:58

As I wrote some days ago in the WPF Part 6, XamlPad is a good way to view the written XAML in real time. But I asked myself, if there are alternatives available:

As mentioned above, XamlPad is a good way to view your XAML code. But there are some disadvantages. Sometimes a better code highlighting, multiple tabs and an IntelliSense like input assistance would be very nice features. But I think, there will be tools available in the future (or are they already available?).

Now, I found two alternatives: The designated successor of XamlPad - XamlPadX - and a very great tool: Kaxaml. [...]

Category: WPF | Comments (0) | Author: Fabian

Windows Forms 2.0 vs Windows Presentation Foundation

Friday, 1. February 2008 14:17

Today I found a really interesting article on www.windowsclient.net. They ask themselves the question when to adopt windows presentation foundation in a project or in an organization. Is there a technology which is superior to the other one and how could we make the best possible choice? [...]

Category: WPF, Windows Forms | Comments (0) | Author: Fabian