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Visual Studio 2008 has shipped: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 were released yesterday. As far as Microsoft development tool releases go, this one is particularly important, as it is the first version of Visual Studio that includes integrated support for .NET 3.0 technologies such as WPF Windows Presentation Framework and WF Workflow Foundation. Though...; Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.0, .Net, Application Servers, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools, John Carroll; Blog posts 2007-11-20
IronRuby pre-alpha release available: John Lam and Scott Guthrie both have posts about the pre-alpha availability of IronRuby, a Ruby implementation for .NET. IronRuby is one of four languages that will be supported in .NET via the Dynamic Language Runtime DLR that Microsoft announced at MIX. The others are IronPython, JavaScript and Dynamic VB....; Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Microsoft, .NET 3.0; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Learning WCF: Hello Indigo: Windows Communication Foundation WCF, formerly code-named "Indigo," is a new distributed messaging platform released with Windows Vista as part of the .NET Framework 3.0. The .NET Framework 3.0, formerly code-named "WinFX," includes four pillars: Windows Presentation Foundation WPF, Windows Workflow Foundation WF, Windows Communication Foundation WCF, and Windows CardSpace. .NET...; Tags: Indigo, Windows Communication Foundation, .NET 3.0, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Application Servers, Operating Systems, Middleware, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software; Book chapters 2007-05-01
A list of Rich Internet Application Technologies for the Digg crowd: This comment thread made me realize that there is still a lot of confusion about what the different RIA technologies do. Statements like "Flex is Adobes AJAX offering." or "Flex is like a weak version of WPF/E when it comes down to it." just show people havent quite grasped where...; Tags: WFP/E, WPF, Expression Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation, OpenLaszlo, Apollo, Flex, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-02-26
With their RIA tech, Microsoft could toast Google in the SaaS world: I have to hand it to Phil, he called me out and pwned me. He gave perfect examples of why data is not necessarily safer in the users hands than it would be with Google. I still think theres something to be said for knowing that Im responsible for my...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Google, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Ajax, WFP/E, WPF; Blog posts 2007-02-23

A new WPF reader application by Identity Mine: Weve heard a lot of good things so far about the New York Times reader that Microsoft and the NYT Co. worked to put together to showcase WPF technologies. Now an independent firm, Identity Mine has taken the idea and run with it creating branded reading experiences built on Windows...; Tags: .NET 3.0, Identity Mine, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF; Blog posts 2007-02-22
"WPF/E" not shipping first release with C# and CLR support: Microsoft is talking about its Expression Studio product at the Future of Web Apps event in London and Tim Anderson had some interesting information from some of the folks working the Microsoft booth: A couple of notes on Microsoft, a newcomer to this conference and showing off...; Tags: .NET 3.0, Expression Studio, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere; Blog posts 2007-02-21
WPF and proving the importance of experience: Anyone who has read my blog knows I have a pretty negative attitude towards browser based applications. With technologies like Flash and "WPF/E" were able to create some great in-browser experiences, but there is still something lacking. But its often difficult to get people to buy into the need for...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Experience, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0, WPF; Blog posts 2007-02-21
Is the New York Times going to charge for their WPF reader?: Very interesting post by Staci Kramer over at paidContent. She quotes a spokeswoman at the New York Times as having this to say about the possibility of charging for the NYT reader that was built with Microsoft using Windows Presentation Foundation: Were still working on this and...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0, New York Times Reader, New York Times Co., NYT Reader; Blog posts 2007-02-09
I'm excited about Windows Vista: So after a long haul, Vista is finally hitting store shelves. Ive been using it for a couple of months now and for the most part, I like it. I absolutely HATE User Account Control and its caused me some headaches I cant elaborate on for NDA reasons and every...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Ive, Microsoft Windows; Blog posts 2007-01-29
Is "Technology X" a desktop version of the .NET Framework for Mac?: This "Technology X" thing on the About page of Mix 07 is killing me. I cant tell if its something big or something small that Ive already heard of. Mary Jo Foley solicited ideas for it and garnered a bunch of responses. WPF/E and WPF are already mentioned on that...; Tags: .NET, Desktops, desktop, WPF/E, Microsoft .NET Framework, Apple Macintosh; Blog posts 2007-01-14
Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 22, 2006: Richard Leggett has an excellent breakdown of Flash and WPF/E. Well worth checking out Tony MacDonell adds two more good predictions to my earlier post about 10 predictions for RIAs in 2007. Marco asks whether Microsoft is betting on .NET or JavaScript and brings up the Sidebar and WPF/E....; Tags: .NET, Scripting languages, Application servers, WPF/E; Blog posts 2006-12-22
Microsoft, Developers, Designers and Bill Gates: I was lucky enough to be a part of the group that went to Microsoft yesterday to talk about everything from the Designer/Developer workflow to their new XNA initiative and it capped off with a Q&A session with Bill Gates himself. From Back Left: Mike Arrington, Evan Williams, Tim Harris,...; Tags: WPF/E, Expression Studio, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Devigner Workflow, Design, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2006-12-14
Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, December 12, 2006: Steve Borsch has an interesting post about Assembling a Rich Internet Application. Steves got an excellent blog and I always enjoy it when he talks about RIAs. Thanks to John Dowdell for the link. TechCrunch has some info on Gotuits new service which allows users to "cut and tag...; Tags: RIA, Microsoft .NET, WebORB Blog, Gotuit, Rich Media, Universal Desktop Daily, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2006-12-12
First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere: Microsoft is announcing two products today which are going to make them an even bigger force in the Rich Internet Application market space. If you think about some of the things that define the world of RIAs you come up with traits like cross-platform, designer/developer workflow, rich media and a...; Tags: WPF/E, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2006-12-04
Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere info starting to trickle out: Ill have a lot more information on Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) coming up on Monday, but it looks like David Boschman has some links on his blog. Including a link to the new WPF/E page on MSDN. via John Dowdell. It looks like the download is unavailable, but...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, WPF/E; Blog posts 2006-12-02
Universal Desktop Daily - Thursday, November 16, 2006: I saw that we have a new Microsoft blog, Web.Next which will cover the next generation of Microsoft technologies starting with WPF/E. From the post: "I know that there are a lot of questions on this technology, and there isnt a lot that I can talk about right now...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Universal Desktop Daily, Microsoft Corp., Mono; Blog posts 2006-11-16
The beginning of an era - Windows Presentation Foundation ships: The .NET Framework 3.0 has been released which means that Windows Presentation Foundation is now fully available as a development platform for Rich Internet Applications. The .NET Framework blog has a list of the various downloads. If you use Vista when it comes out, the .NET Framework 3...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Avalon, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0; Blog posts 2006-11-07
Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, November 3, 2006: Sorry I'm late with this today, I had a late night and didn't get it out. Just a few quick things this morning: My fellow ZDNet blogger, John Carroll, has a good post about .NET 3.0 and Windows Presentation Foundation. He talks about he APIs, and gives a...; Tags: WPF, .NET 3.0, Microsoft .NET, Windows Presentation; Blog posts 2006-11-03
The Novell-Microsoft agreement and .NET: Microsoft and Novell recently signed a cooperative technology deal that will make it easier for Novell's Suse Linux distribution and Microsoft Windows to work together. In unrelated news, Palestinians and Israelis agreed to end their differences and create a new country called "Palestisrael." Yes, the news that Microsoft would agree...; Tags: .NET 3.0, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Windows, Linux; Blog posts 2006-11-03