Kevin Moore: New Features in WPF 3.5
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Although WPF is less than a year old, we’re already putting the finishing touches to an update that will add some neat features and improvements, improve internationalization support and increase performance. In this video, Charles Torre (and Dr Sneath, when he finally turns up) sit down with Kevin “Bag’o’Tricks” Moore as he provides a whirlwind tour of the improvements and changes you can expect to see in WPF 3.5 (which ships as part of "Orcas").
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Sheva
On a technical side, I remember seeing, around PDC '06 time, a series of slides stating that WPF would work via DX10 (where possible in hardware) to fully move the text-rendering path into hardware. This means that glyph performance would be up there with GDI, if not even faster. It also meant better GPU task allocation thanks to the advanced scheduling features of DX10-class GPUs. Is DX10 support for the presentation backend coming in this 3.5 release? If not, is it planned to come sometime in the future?
I'd be a real shame to see WPF fall into the same trap that GDI Acceleration did, of being very good at what it was, but locked to a very specific set of basic hardware functionality that went out of date around '98, and was never extended, perhaps with the exception of hardware alpha transparency in Windows 2000.
Kevin suggested that this kind of code would be forthcoming???
But great video. Love to watch Kevin and Sneath play off each others thoughts.
does someone know what happened to the connect issue id: 272960 (https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=272960&SiteID=212) !?
it says "solved" does that mean it will be part of wpf 3.5 !?
thx & greets
Matthias
Curious to hear Kevin talk about ado.net using property descriptors as I read about it in Databinding with Win Forms 2.0 - Brian Noyes but never really seen it referenced.
I look forward to more Channel 9 and more cow bell.
...yeah, that would be nice
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