The good folks over at Microsoft held a demonstration hosted by Tim Huckaby from InterKnowlogy about .Net 3.0 technologies last Thursday -- specifically developing applications with XAML and WPF. Tim did a good job of covering the topic, here's a brief rundown of what we saw:
- Tim showed us some great XAML applications, including an application for the Life Sciences (that's the science of Healthcare -- as opposed to the business of Healthcare for the rest of us) industry that aids in the research and development of cures for cancer. He showed us how easy it is to build complicated renderings using XAML and WPF.
- We also saw an awesome application for CAD designers. This thing had 3D rendering of Autodesk files with pan/tilt/zoom and the works. According to Tim, the hardest part of writing that application was the file conversion fro Autodesk to WPF instructions.
- We got some lip service on WPF/E (mostly due to time constraints) -- technology that allows developers to host WPF content on various platforms. Imagine WPF content on your cell phone, in your web browser and more. Isn't there another vendor that has a "plug in" for this? :)
In some unrelated, but still good news, I got an important leak from our local Microsoft partners this week (shhhh... tell everyone). Word on the street is that MSDN Premium subscribers are going to get Expression Web and Expression Blend at no additional cost. This -- of course -- will mean good things to come for WPF designers/developers, regular web developers and anyone who just doesn't care for tag markup.
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