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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

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Silverlight snippets from reMIX UK

Silverlight snippets from reMIX UKAnother stupid cash cow?Well I hope it's not another milking of the MS cash cow i.e. delaying the release of SL2 until the PDC sells up because seriously .NET devs have been losing out to Flash over the last two years (good news for you, Ryan,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, PDC, reMIX UK, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released

Microsoft released a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation, their next generation windows application UI framework. The new version will ship as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Tim Sneath has a very long and detailed post of the features but I'll try and break down the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-12

MSDN Webcast: What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation (Level 100)

The attendee of this webcast will learn about the work being done in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 release of Windows Presentation Foundation, including improved 3-D capabilities with UIElement3D, increased animation smoothness, and better cookie and FireFox plug-in support for XAML Browser APplications XBAPs, in addition to support for AddInControl,...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Animation, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2008-03-07

Vista sells! More WPF apps coming?

I feel like I'm in a time warp. Crazy valuations on companies and now Microsoft is reporting amazing financial results. It's party time! If you didn't see, Microsoft blew away analysts revenue targets on the back of some very strong Vista and Office sales. Sometimes it's nice to see the...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-10-26

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

The debacle of the BBC's iPlayer

Tim Anderson has a writeup of his experience with the BBCs new iPlayer and it isn't pretty. If you aren't familiar with the iPlayer, it's a desktop player that the BBC rolled out to allow users to watch BBC programming up to 7 days after the air date. All in...

Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-08-01

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

'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?

'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?if it's not GPLEed it's deadOnly if the community will have the code, the coloud can get any traction.The Real IssueWhen I see phrases like 'dev platform in the cloud', 'democratizing the cloud', 'incubation project', 'compiling any MSIL assembly into cross-browser-compatible JavaScript', I come...

Tags: Application servers, .NET, Middleware, Web services, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft .NET, dev platform, BizTalk Services, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies

Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...

Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Desktop vs. Browser - when to deploy applications for each

Since I talk so much about browser applications versus desktop applications, I thought it would be a good idea to blog about some thoughts I have regarding when to choose one delivery mechanism or the other. In a lot of ways, it isnt even a matter of richness anymore. Most...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience

Blog posts 2007-04-02

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

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

Back to basics: Why Flex is the best option out there

Back to basics: Why Flex is the best option out thereDon't forget about WPF XBAPsWPF XBAPs will gain some market too, I guess, maybe not for mainstream apps, but for line of business or intranet/extranet scenarios e.g. requiring 3D interaction.btw - "Rich Internet Applications" is a vague term branded by...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, AJAX, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

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 - Thursday, November 30, 2006

Hey, sorry about the lack of UDDs. With Thanksgiving and then general hectic-ness I havent been able to highlight things as well this week. Its a shame because there are some cool things going on. Heres a rundown from the past few days. Richard MacManus has the...

Tags: RIA, Ashish, Flex, Apollo, Windows Presentation Foundation, Read/Write Web, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe

Blog posts 2006-11-30

The beginning of an era - Windows Presentation Foundation ships

The beginning of an era - Windows Presentation Foundation shipsHang on, it's not just for the internet.Look at the full Expression Suite in beta and what can be done with the Windows Presentaion Foundation. Simply amazing...Make sure you put "Proprietary" in front of that.When using the word "Internet", many...

Tags: Quality, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows, Windows Presentation, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-11-07

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 - Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, October 10, 2006IE7 is not required for XBAPsRyan-IE6 on XP SP2 will work fine with WPF XBAPs. IE7 works better, but it isn't required to use XBAPs.-Rob RelyeaProgram Manager, WPF Teamhttp://rrelyea.spaces.live.comRE: IE7 is not required for XBAPsAhhhh, thanks for the clarification Rob. When you...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, XBAP, Tuesday October 10

Discussion threads 2006-10-10