A “Week of WPF” begins on Channel 9 with the announcement that the third major release of WPF (3.5 SP1) has gone beta!
Tim Sneath’s blog entry has fantastic detail about what’s coming in this release and all the download/update details (Silverlighters developing using 2.0 Beta: see caveat below).
Folks attending my “WPF for Line Of Business apps” presentation on Thursday will be happy to hear about the new WPF controls, like the DataGrid, Ribbon and WebBrowser. (Silverlight, it seems, has been a good influence on big brother WPF.) They’ll also value the performance improvements, the new “Client Profile” that can reduce the size of the .NET framework required for deployment, and the little-but-very-useful things like support for string formatting for data-bound text.
Me, I am also utterly stoked about the shader support, the D3DImage, and improvements to WriteableBitmap. Greg Schechter is walking us through the details on his blog.
I am going to check this stuff out this week and promise to demo what I can at my DevTeach presentation on Thursday!
Important caveat: When Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Betas went live last week, I didn’t update my dev box because the SP1 Beta release is incompatible with Silverlight 2 Beta 1 development. This will be resolved for Silverlight 2 Beta 2, which is imminent – so I’m going to make the update, get a VPC ready for Silverlight development, and start playing with WPF development on my main box now.
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Posted May 12th, 2008
into Developer, Microsoft, Tech Events, WPF
with tags .NET 3.5 SP1
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