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WPF XBAP - Microsoft's answer to Flex

WPF XBAP - Microsoft's answer to FlexWPF/EMicrosoft has demonstrated MAC and LINUX versions of the WPF called WPF/E the e standing for everywhere. and they have demoed it in IE and Firefox. I believe it was at MIX 06 in vegas.XBAP vs. WPF/EXBAP allows you to build RIAs that run...

Tags: Web browsers, Channel 9 interview, WPF XBAP, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, rich Internet application, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, WPF/E RIA, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Channel 9, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-07-18

WPF XBAP - Microsoft's answer to Flex

I just caught this video over at Channel 9 which describes and demos "WPF XBAP". All this time, we've been hearing about WPF, which will enable desktop applications via XAML, and WPF/E which was going to be a limited, cross-platform version of WPF. I've been contending that WPF was...

Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., WPF, WPF XBAP

Blog posts 2006-07-18

Additional Resources

Barcode Professional for WPF 3.0 (Windows)

Barcode for Windows Presentation Foundation WPF generates high quality vector-based Linear, Postal and 2D Symbologies. Features: Linear & 2D Barcodes; XML Paper Specification XPS support; Crystal Reports for .NET support; GIF, BMP, PNG, JPEG-JPG & TIFF barcode image formats support; Full design-time support Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio Express Editions...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Neodynamic, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-03-10

Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-free

Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-freeExactlyA reaction to the Firefox encroachment, that's all.What's to gain by that?If I run FireFox on Windows I paid for Windows and therefore paid for IE. It doesn't matter if I use FireFox Microsoft still got money from me. As a ploy to get users...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 2000

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

Firefox improved on Vista, but still no protected mode

Since our last article on Firefox's problems with Vista, considerable progress has been made to improve the browser for Microsoft's newest operating system. We caught up with Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation, to bring us up to date.[ZDNet] When Vista first came out, users reported a...

Tags: Web Browsers, Microsoft, Java, General, Community, AJAX

Blog posts 2007-07-04

My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie

My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott GuthrieNew Job Opening for OzzieNow that the whole Groove and Live thing has played out -- I think Lipitor is looking for a new spokesman...and Ozz has the Robert Jarvik lips and all...so, a natural match.XBAP'sI thought XBAPs were going to be the...

Tags: Apollo, rich Internet application, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, XBAP, Ray Ozzie

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

Support for XBAP in Mozilla Firefox is coming

Support for XBAP in Mozilla Firefox is comingdeploy, deploy, deploy!This is exactly the right stuff from MS. Every time XBAP deployment improves in new directions be it: getting it to run in some other browser; getting the runtime size down; coming up with novel ways to reduce sandbox restrictions; reining...

Tags: .NET, Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, XBAP, rich Internet application, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-26

Support for XBAP in Mozilla Firefox is coming

At an event today on Microsofts campus, Ian Ellison-Tayler, the WPF Product Unit Manager mentioned that XBAP support is coming to Mozilla Firefox as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 update that will ship with Visual Studio "Orcas". Ive covered XBAPs in the past, but for those who arent familiar,...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, .NET, Mozilla Corp., Web browser, XBAP, WPF, Mozilla Firefox, XBAPs, Microsoft .NET

Blog posts 2007-03-26

What Creative Suite 3 means for Rich Internet Applications

What Creative Suite 3 means for Rich Internet ApplicationsMS Developer Requires SandbagsRyan is spot on with this. As a Microsoft developer, CS3 is the tidal wave I have been fearing for a long time and unless MS can come up with something tremendous very soon, we meaning MS developers are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, .NET, Ryan, C# Developer, Microsoft Corp., rich Internet application, XBAP, Cs3, Creative Suite 3, Adobe Creative Suite

Discussion threads 2007-03-06

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

With their RIA tech, Microsoft could toast Google in the SaaS worldDude, you've been on a roll this week!You have posted some great and thought provoking content this week and I have enjoyed the conversations a lot!Thanks,MarlonControlWell WPF, WPF/e and XBAP obviously exist for a reason - and they're probably...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., security, rich Internet application, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, Google Inc., software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2007-02-23

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

"WPF/E" not shipping first release with C

"WPF/E" not shipping first release with Cless than a year is a disasterIf true, it is absolutely incredible that WPF/e is not shipping 1st time around with C#. I can't believe it will be that big a job for Adobe to add a vectorised markup to their products. What's going...

Tags: .NET, Middleware, Programming languages, Andrew, XBAP, C, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, CLR support, CLR, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

WPF and proving the importance of experience

WPF and proving the importance of experienceWPF is great but...Good post Ryan.Here's my one thing though - As slick as the WPF apps look and how well the perform, telling a client, "Yes we can build this but, it will only work on Windows.." won't fly for very long. Companies...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, XBAP, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, December 7, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, December 7, 2006Save us from JavascriptI like the responses to the [url= http://tinyurl.com/yx9lfa]Mike Harsh blog post[/url]. It is nice that MS is allowing WPF/E apps to be manipulated by Javascript, etc. But there are a lot of developers who would simply like to place a...

Tags: Scripting languages, OOA/OOD/OOP, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, scripting language, WPF/E app, JavaScript

Discussion threads 2006-12-07

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 1, 2006

Web Analytics Association has a podcast up with Avinash Kaushik of Occams Razor in which they talk about Rich Media including Ajax and Flash. It puts a smile on my face to see Rich Internet Applications being talked about by a wider audience. Avinash worked with Allurent, so he...

Tags: Microsoft, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Apollo, Windows Presentation Foundation, SWF2XAML, Avinash Kaushik

Blog posts 2006-12-01

Privacy, the Web, and Rich Internet Applications

Im sorry for the lack of updates last weekend. I spent Thanksgiving with my parents who live in a tiny town about 90 miles west of Aspen in Colorado. It isnt quite small enough that I was without broadband internet they have DSL but I took the few days of...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, privacy, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-29

Building on the gadget platform in Vista

Building on the gadget platform in VistaWPF in Gadgets is possibleBy creating a IFRAME and using WPF's XBAP deployment, it is possible to create a gadget based on WPF:http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2006/10/04/WPF-Vista-Gadgets-_2D00_-Part-1_3A00_-Using-XBAP-and-IFRAME.aspxWPFI knew that there were workarounds for WPF integration in Vista Sidebar Gadgets but I didn't know official integration was still a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

Microsoft's rich client counterattack

Microsoft's rich client counterattackWeb Client means you always have your clientThe single biggest reason for a web client is that you can use it anywhere on any box with a browser if you code to standard HTML. There's no special installation needs, there's no problem that you'll lose a...

Tags: Web browsers, collaboration, rich Internet application, Google Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Web, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

Rich Internet Application platforms and the Stack

Dion Hinchcliffe, my fellow ZDNet blogger, gave a rundown on what he called the "RIA wars". It is great to see that people are taking notice of Rich Internet Applications and the technologies that power them. Dion's piece is a good overview of what's out there and the pros and...

Tags: Web, desktop

Blog posts 2006-09-12