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Mail from Kenny’s cousin David this morning:
From: Pashman, DavidSent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:58 AMTo: Kenny Wolf; Lauren LavoieSubject: congratulations
Are congratulations in order for the birth of your new baby OS?
Yes, I suppose you could say that Kenny and I (and the thousands of other folks who shipped Windows Vista) released our own little baby [...]
This morning, the WPF/E team shipped their first CTP! You can now download the plugin for Windows and Mac. Check out the WPF/E MSDN Developer Center to get started and Channel 9 WPF/E Playground for samples. The following blogs have more info:
Joe Stegman (WPF/E lead PM)
Mike Harsh (WPF/E PM)
Somasegar (DevDiv VP; Soma also announces the release of Expression Web)
Congrats to [...]
Get .Net Framework 3.0 here.
Seema has a good post explaining why software rendering is sometimes faster than hardware rendering for layered windows. In short, your software vs. hardware performance will depend on your specific video card. Seema suggests:
Key takeaway: a semi-transparent window is a particularly complex feature for WPF’s rendering system. Figure out early what type of hardware that [...]
My friend and co-worker Hamid just pointed me to Clearification.com, a very interesting new joint project from the Windows Vista team and Demetri Martin. It hosts a series of episodes that tell the story of Demetri’s “condition,” and presumably how he overcomes it. Only the first episode is available now, but the others are all [...]
I liked this AP headline today: Microsoft’s Vista May Arrive on Time. If the AP is starting to have confidence, we must be ready. ;)
Two of our architects, Mike Hillberg and Rob Relyea, blogged up a storm while I was gone. There is a great wealth of information on both of their blogs, and I am learning a lot about WPF by reading them. I’m especially impressed that Mike has only been blogging for 12 days and has already contributed [...]
While I was on vacation, Seema blogged that WPF will not have hardware acceleration for layered windows on Windows XP. Nick elaborates a bit to explain that while we did once have partial support for this, it was unreliable and sometimes slower than software rendering. Rest assured that hardware acceleration is still there for Vista. [...]
Over on Bea’s excellent blog, Sam asked a great question about how controls retain their state when you navigate away from a page:
This got nothing to do with threads, sorry for intruding, but I don’t know where to ask this question (managed newsgroups provide no answer)
When you navigate back in a browser-like WPF application, the pages are re-created (at [...]
I have the RC1 build of Windows Vista running on an old-ish machine at work - the machine has 512 MB of RAM, which means that my Windows Experience Index is a measly 2.9. Given that, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the OS is quite zippy, and not to mention extremely fun to [...]
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