MicroApplications, Inc. Web Log

Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E)

There are some exciting developments afoot at Microsoft concerning the Windows Presentation Foundation that is built into Windows Vista. If you are interested in seeing the future of rich web applications, check out a mash-up/modification I did to the WPF/E Sample Picture Page Turner here, or a slight modification of the Sample Slick Video Player with a short from my last sailing trip here, or just play the Sample Game Sprawl here. If you have not already installed it, you will be prompted to download the Microsoft WPF/E December 2006 Community Technology Preview runtime. I have it installed on a Windows XP Pro computer as well as the Dell e1505 Vista Development laptop that I'm posting this blog entry from (in Office Word 2007 no less). It is a safe download. It is supposed to work from PC's and Mac's, IE, Firefox, Safari, and even Opera. I have only tested it on IE7 on XP Pro and Vista, and Firefox on XP Pro, so your mileage may vary. Might have to fire up that Mac OSx VMWare Virtual Machine I built last month. This is very cool and compelling stuff.

Note to developers: If you want to deploy a WPF/E solution to your web server, be sure to add the mime types text/xaml with the file extension .xaml, and application/octet-stream with the file extension .dmg. That answer was right on the WPF/E community forum, but this will save you some search clicks.

posted @ Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:11 PM