Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/468356_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 Recently, Mark Wilson-Thomas did some sessions at MIX09 in which he provided details and demos of how Visual Studio 2010 will provide better support for rich development of WPF and Silverlight applications. I asked him to stop by and provide us with some of those details, and look under the hood of the next version of Visual Studio. We also got him to show us a special sneak preview of how Visual Studio 2010 will allow you to create drag/drop DataGrid's for WPF and Silverlight as well. For more details, you can check out his MIX09 session, which are available online here: What's New for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Developers in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4 And if you happen to be going to TechEd, be sure to check out his sessions there: May 11 @ 4:30pm: [WUX304] Building Rich Business Clients in WPF: New Tools and Controls for Windows Presentation Foundation May 13 @ 10:15am: [WUX01-INT] Building Rich Business Clients in WPF: Feedback Session en Sun, 26 May 2013 02:16:29 GMT Sun, 26 May 2013 02:16:29 GMT Rev9 Re: Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 Video quality in both silverlight and WMV High looks as if it's encoded improperly (or edited using lossly compressed material and recompressed), looks blurry and low res.

posted by androidi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633773177690000000 Thu, 07 May 2009 18:29:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633773177690000000 androidi Re: Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 posted by Robert Hess

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633773217380000000 Thu, 07 May 2009 19:35:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633773217380000000 Robert Hess Re: Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 posted by exoteric

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633773779030000000 Fri, 08 May 2009 11:11:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633773779030000000 exoteric Re: Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010
Will VS 2010 include and work with new SketchFlow?

Will VS 2010 include themes that work with DataGrid, DataPicker, Calendar?

Can't wait to play with the bits?  Thanks

posted by shaggygi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633774850660000000 Sat, 09 May 2009 16:57:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633774850660000000 shaggygi Re: Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010
In the demo you where dragging in controls that where being generated from the data source. Will that work for those of us using an MVVM style of architecture where the DataContext is set in the code behind, so the designer doesn't actually know the type of the data that we are binding to? 

posted by MattF

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633775655760000000 Sun, 10 May 2009 15:19:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633775655760000000 MattF Re: Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 Hi Shaggygi!

In answer to your questions:

1. We won't have specific UI to address the Visual State Manager in Visual Studio 2010, but we will support XAML that uses it. So you can design for VSM in Blend and then use the XAML in Visual Studio 2010. This is in common with control template editing.

2, No, we won't include Sketchflow in Visual Studio 2010; it is part of the Microsoft Expression family of products and that team will determine how and when it will be made available publicly.

3. The new WPF theme packs on Codeplex at http://wpf.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=WPF%20Themes already address a wide variety of controls; I'll check in with my colleagues on that team to see what their plans are for dealing with DataGrid, DatePicker and Calendar and let you know.

We're glad you're looking forward to the Beta - we're really looking forward to your feedback on it!

Thanks

Mark Wilson-Thomas

Program Manager, WPF & Silverlight Designer Team, Visual Studio

posted by PavAtMSFT

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633777671310000000 Tue, 12 May 2009 23:18:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633777671310000000 PavAtMSFT Re: Mark Wilson-Thomas: WPF and Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 In response to #3: The themes are "officially" supported only for the controls in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 I believe, and do not work for the DataGrid, Calendar, and DatePicker which were shipped out of band (though you should be able to extend them yourself to work with these controls).  We would like to eventually extend the themes to work with the new controls, but we haven't been resourced to do this yet and do not have a date for when this might be available in the future.  Thanks!

posted by SamanthaDurante

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633785277150000000 Thu, 21 May 2009 18:35:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010#c633785277150000000 SamanthaDurante