Michael Wallent: Advent and Evolution of WPF
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Tim Sneath, you know him by now as our friendly neighborhood WinFX Technical Evangelist and Channel 9 correspondent, recently sat down with Michael Wallent, General Manager of the WinFX team and one of the people who helped create DHTML, to discuss the
history and future of WPF, our next generation Windows presentation platform. Where did WPF come from? Where does it fit into Web 2.0? These and many more questions are addressed in this excellent interview.
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Good introduction on history and background of WPF. The first half was very good.
For some the confirmation about unmanaged and public MIL API 'to replace GDI' may be news. Obviously the GDI will still be there and the perf of latest CPUs doesn't make one miss the lack of hw-acceleration.
It has been a very long wait and I am still waiting.
Suggestions for version release frequency:
Stand-alone-applications (Internet Explorer): Every Year
Tools (Visual Studio, Expression Suite): Every Two Years
Office: Every Three Years
Window Operating Systems and SQL Server: Every Four Years
Five and six year waits are inexcusable.
Less features-more releases.
Thank you again for a great interview.
Raymond
My approach was very very similar to the current AJAX technology.
But in that time frame no browser (except IE) understood what I wanted him to do
That was fun.
So he helped create HTML,CSS and Javascript? Quite an achievement!
So he helped create HTML,CSS and Javascript? Quite an achievement!
Nice to hear the background information, and the history of the path the product walks
Nothing replaces an excellent discussion of technology in a historical context like this Channel9 post. Everything else is existential doggy bags and sophomoric kiddie plates served in a vacuum.
Sensible questions from Professor Sneath allow Michael Wallent to recover all of the ground he lost with those dodgy "ActiveX is only used for advertising" pronouncements around the time of EOLAS. If this is the face of Microsoft's current strategic management, then good. Thanks too for "A Big Whatever", now an integral part of our company's lexicon.
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