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Congratulations to all involved!

One thing I noticed though during setup of .NET Framework 3.5: It takes ages to install. I'm on the second machine right now, and so far installation takes up to 30min for the runtime alone.

Hmm, I really would have liked to see the stuff shown in this video to be part of WinForms 3.5.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the improvements for C++ programmers, but it further complicates the MS UI technology landscape.

To achieve Office 2007 look & feel in managed code, you have to rely on 3rd party WinForms controls. WPF is the way to go in the future, but currently lacks a variety of controls we got used to in WinForms.

So it boils down to the problem that the managed UI world is in a transitioning phase between (old) WinForms 2.0 and (new) WPF, and in between is a large gap that ironically C++/MFC seems to fill perfectly (although only conceptually, since the technology is not usable from managed code).

I really liked this video, it sends a positive message to the people in the industry in general and women about to enter this industry in particular.

But I'm wondering if it's enough to put such videos on C9 alone. Aren't most of the people visiting here already in IT? Wouldn't it be a good idea to put the video at least on C8, too, where the intended audience are students? And maybe an abridged version on C10?

HowardNYC wrote:



good, basic how-to...

 

Q: has anyone built an inventory of all such how-to vid's...?

...if so, where is it?

 

http://windowsclient.net/learn/videos.aspx

Bas wrote:

I may have missed this in the interview, but is there any estimation as to when we might expect Silverlight 1.1?

A beta version with a go-live license would be a good first step. But I guess only now that 1.0 is out the door, all resources can be concentrated on 1.1. So it might take some time.

Probably not the right place to ask this, but it's something that bugged me a little this very moment:

Is there a way to copy and paste text which is displayed by Silverlight? e.g. on text intensive sites like www.tafiti.com it would be nice to actually be able to select and copy text.

Great video, thanks. Favourite quote:

"If you were the Bill Gates of the 15th century, you might have had twelve books."

swiatecki wrote:



mrtavares wrote: Running Windows Vista with the latest version of Silverlight. Doesn't work though. There's no keyboard input capabilities. The initial animation works and all, but just can't control the character. Does it have to do with the fact that my keyboard is not USB ? Take care.

Same problem here both on USB keyboard and my laptops

Same thing here. I always wondered why the game was mentioned so often as a cool Silverlight demo, but couldn't be played due to broken keyboard input.

@Charles: No offense, but I think responding to each bad comment is futile. People should be able to distinguish between good and bad comments themselves.

As for the video:

Sumit mentioned 25 developers on her team. That sounds pretty low for a complex product like Access. Are there lots of shared components in Office (like UI stuff, VBA, etc.) that are not developed by her team?

Another question: Were there similar efforts in the Office team to better componentize the application and reduce dependencies between components like in Vista?

 

There actually is a WPF ribbon control as mentioned in this blog entry. Don't know if it's the one shown in this video, though.