March 5th, 2007
Tool for creating "WPF/E" apps on the horizon?
I always feel a odd bringing up shortcomings for products that are still very much in development like Apollo or "WPF/E", but one of the complaints I've heard about WPF/E is the lack of a specific tool targeted at the XAML that WPF/E uses. Blend is a great tool for designing full WPF applications, but trying to port those applications gives mixed results. The export to WPF/E XAML hasn't worked well enough for the developers I talk to.
But the guys over at the excellent revolUXions show dropped a bit of a hint about what might be coming for Blend and WPF/E:
We are postponing our WPF/E episode, as we're waiting for certain tools for WPF/E to be released by Microsoft. However, don't be disappointed. We have some major stuff to cover regarding WPF/E that you will not find anywhere else. Trust me. :)
I'm almost afraid to hope, but ideally it would be great for FULL support for WPF/E in Blend. When Eric Zocher showed the "map" of tooling for Ajax, WPF/E, and WPF, there was a big hole for WPF/E between Expression Web and Expression Blend. Blend is the natural tool, so if they're adding special WPF/E extensions or allowing you to create WPF/E specific projects, that would be a big step forward and should help WPF/E adoption when it's released.
Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst, recently joined Adobe's Platform Team as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist. full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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