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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:48 AM

SaaS Vendor quits browser to boost sales

Interesting win-back from the browser for WPF. Whats are the two take-aways for public sector developers and decision makers? First, user experience has a huge impact on adoption. This is an example of Software Plus Services at work. Its not something
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:42 AM

P&P ships Composite Application Guidance for WPF

The Patterns & Practices team has recently released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF which provides guidance for "componetizing" the development of enterprise-class WPF applications across multiple development teams, with each team owning
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:58 PM

WPF for Line of Business applications

I'm a big believer that WPF is a great UI technology for LOB applications.  Yes, there are some shortcomings in the designer experience if you compare the WPF designer to the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 2008.  Yes, WPF is missing
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:12 AM

DC Launch Follow Up

Thanks to everyone who stuck around for my "Defy Occasionally-Connected Challenges With Smart Client Applications" session at the DC Launch.  The deck and demo files are available here: Deck Workflow Services Demo Sync Services for ADO.NET
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Friday, July 27, 2007 11:28 AM

WEBCAST: What's new in Visual Studio 2008 for Smart Client Developers?

UPDATE: I am aware that the registration link is broken. I am working to get the proper link from the company who sets these up for me. Sorry about the broken link. UPDATE2: The link has been updated and now works:). Come see a demo-rich overview of the
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:30 PM

What's new in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 for Smart Client Developers?

I've been spending a bit of time getting spun up on what's new in the .NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008. With all the buzz around Silverlight & ASP.NET AJAX, you may not have heard about the new tools, APIs, and services for Smart Clients.
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 3 Comments
Sunday, May 20, 2007 2:16 PM

Smart Client Software Factory v2 is now available

Enhancements include: Windows Presentation Foundation interoperability CAB extensions and View with presenter recipe Offline application blocks and recipes; the application blocks support asynchronous calls to WCF web services. Richer ClickOnce Deployment
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 2 Comments
Friday, April 13, 2007 12:25 PM

Thanks to everyone in Los Angeles & Sacramento who attended our conference

As promised, you can get my decks and demos from www.publicsectordeveloper.com ( direct link ). The demos are "as-is" but feel free to let me know if something doesn't work anymore. A more detailed explanation of the WPF deck and demos can be found here
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:59 PM

Another WPF Ribbon control

Actipro software has release their Actipro Ribbon WPF control. You can learn more about it here. There's a live XBAP demo here . -Marc
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Friday, March 30, 2007 9:18 AM

WPF 3D Goodies

I was catching up on some blog reading and came across two posts that I think those of you interested in the 3D feature of WPF will find helpful: Bootcamp Lecture deck from the WPF 3D Team Blog New Lab Posted: Creating 3D Content with Windows Presentation
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:38 AM

Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face

I just finished reading this article over at ars technica. Developers always ask me "why Vista if WPF works just fine on XP SP2?" WPF on Vista is a better experience because of the "plumbing" you will read about in this article. I think this article does
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:41 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introduction to WPF (13MAR07)

UPDATE: I promised I would post the running list of WPF controls and XAML capable tools. Mike Swanson keeps it here . Thanks to everyone who attended. You can download my deck here . The demos & code I showed (plus more) are all available from http://wpf.netfx3.com/files/default.aspx
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:10 PM

Using WPF, Virtual Earth, and WPF/E together...

A while back, I blogged about using WPF/E & Virtual Earth together. The post is here . I've also blogged about adding Virtual Earth in a Windows Forms application here (last paragraph). What about WPF? Given that the Virtual Earth v4 Map Control is
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 4 Comments
Friday, February 23, 2007 4:05 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introduction to WPF

Thanks to everyone who attended. You can download my deck here . The demos & code I showed (plus more) are all available from http://wpf.netfx3.com/files/default.aspx except the New York Times Reader and the stuff I built using Expression Blend. You
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Monday, February 19, 2007 9:45 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Building a Better User Experience with the Windows Presentation Foundation

When Feb. 23rd 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032325322 Note : Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract Windows Presentation
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 3 Comments
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