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1 year ago
in XamlReader and Resource Library fonts in WPF on Huddled Masses
Have you posted a question about the font problem to the wpf forum (http://robrelyea.com/wpf/forum)?
XamlReader runs under partial trust when running in an XBAP, but not when running in a normal application.
Thanks, Rob
Rob Relyea | Program Manager, WPF & Xaml Language Team
robrelyea.com | /blog | /wpf | /xaml
XamlReader runs under partial trust when running in an XBAP, but not when running in a normal application.
Thanks, Rob
Rob Relyea | Program Manager, WPF & Xaml Language Team
robrelyea.com | /blog | /wpf | /xaml
1 year ago
in PoshConsole - a Smart, Fashionable PowerShell Console on Huddled Masses
Jaykul-
Love the console. I posted a bit of feedback and input here: http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!167AD7A...
Thanks, Rob
Rob Relyea | Program Manager, WPF & Xaml Language Team
robrelyea.com | /blog | /wpf | /xaml
Love the console. I posted a bit of feedback and input here: http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!167AD7A...
Thanks, Rob
Rob Relyea | Program Manager, WPF & Xaml Language Team
robrelyea.com | /blog | /wpf | /xaml
2 years ago
in First day of post-Microsoft sadness on Scobleizer
Richard-
Yes, I said earlier in this thread:
"Windows Vista has managed code, just no WPF managed dependencies yet."
I'm not sure why you say that WPF is not a Vista technology. WPF is part of Windows Vista. It helps people build great Vista applications. Yes, most of the capabilities that are part of a WPF app for Vista can happen on XP...but Vista will exceed XP.
Tim Sneath had a blog post about the differences (Tim Sneath : Comparing WPF on Windows Vista v. Windows XP: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/01/05/c...)
Hopefully you'll notice that we are not trying to keep any of this secret...
Thanks, Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
Yes, I said earlier in this thread:
"Windows Vista has managed code, just no WPF managed dependencies yet."
I'm not sure why you say that WPF is not a Vista technology. WPF is part of Windows Vista. It helps people build great Vista applications. Yes, most of the capabilities that are part of a WPF app for Vista can happen on XP...but Vista will exceed XP.
Tim Sneath had a blog post about the differences (Tim Sneath : Comparing WPF on Windows Vista v. Windows XP: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/01/05/c...)
Hopefully you'll notice that we are not trying to keep any of this secret...
Thanks, Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
2 years ago
in First day of post-Microsoft sadness on Scobleizer
Diego-
Photosynth is pretty cool isn't it.
I haven't worked directly with the Photosynth teams yet. I believe that today it is a DirectX application written inside of ActiveX controls to be able to run in the browser. But their team would be able to say for sure. I believe that there was a channel 9 video with the creator of PhotoSynth several months ago...I watched that...he may have discussed that detail then?
What I enjoy most about photosynth is the illustration of what 3d can do for visualization.
Thanks, Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
Photosynth is pretty cool isn't it.
I haven't worked directly with the Photosynth teams yet. I believe that today it is a DirectX application written inside of ActiveX controls to be able to run in the browser. But their team would be able to say for sure. I believe that there was a channel 9 video with the creator of PhotoSynth several months ago...I watched that...he may have discussed that detail then?
What I enjoy most about photosynth is the illustration of what 3d can do for visualization.
Thanks, Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
2 years ago
in First day of post-Microsoft sadness on Scobleizer
Diego-
I don't think that is a great summary of the situation.
C/C++ still is an important part of Windows development. As I said in the earlier post, it is critical to use it in most of the pieces of the OS today.
ISVs have the option of writing with .Net or without. Their scenarios, existing codebases and competitive scene will be the judge of which choice is best for them today.
Using Visual C++, you can stick with unmanaged development, or take full advantage of .Net.
Over time, you should see more of the Windows team have that option of writing .Net or not...
To me, somebody who worked in the Windows team for the last 8 years, I view Microsoft as a very important ISV...they have some groups where .Net makes total sense and others where it will likely be interesting over a longer time period.
Later, Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
I don't think that is a great summary of the situation.
C/C++ still is an important part of Windows development. As I said in the earlier post, it is critical to use it in most of the pieces of the OS today.
ISVs have the option of writing with .Net or without. Their scenarios, existing codebases and competitive scene will be the judge of which choice is best for them today.
Using Visual C++, you can stick with unmanaged development, or take full advantage of .Net.
Over time, you should see more of the Windows team have that option of writing .Net or not...
To me, somebody who worked in the Windows team for the last 8 years, I view Microsoft as a very important ISV...they have some groups where .Net makes total sense and others where it will likely be interesting over a longer time period.
Later, Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
2 years ago
in First day of post-Microsoft sadness on Scobleizer
Hey Robert-
Yes, it is an exciting time to be at Microsoft! I'm sorry you aren't still here to be part of the party...
Anyway, I'm in my hotel room in Barcelona (TechEd day 3 of 4 just finished) reading blog reactions about Vista, WPF, .Net Framework 3.0. It is fun. Yes, this is a fun city!
To confirm, yes the DWM (Desktop Window Manager) in Windows Vista is not using Managed code. Both WPF and DWM share the underlying graphics stack build on top of Direct3D/DirectX. This is implemeneted in a unmanaged DLL call MilCore.dll. MIL stands for Media Integration Library.
Windows Vista has managed code, just no WPF managed dependencies yet. Media Center is written in Managed code. There are some other random pieces as well (I don't know them all.)
The CLR team is doing work now and into the future to make sure that more components of the OS can be built with it. Right now, I'd say the .Net Runtime is better for ISV/Enterprise/Consumer applications than it is for building Operating Systems.
If WPF/.Net could do everything now, life would be boring. After almost 6 years working on WPF, I'm as exciting as ever about the next wave of things we can do in our future versions.
How can we work with Office better, etc...
Vista is done. Our team keeps learning of great applications/experiences that great designers and developers around the world have built. It is fantastic!
Anyway, gotta go back to VS -- I'm prototyping some new ideas for even cooler things we can do in the next version or two.
I love software!
-Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
Yes, it is an exciting time to be at Microsoft! I'm sorry you aren't still here to be part of the party...
Anyway, I'm in my hotel room in Barcelona (TechEd day 3 of 4 just finished) reading blog reactions about Vista, WPF, .Net Framework 3.0. It is fun. Yes, this is a fun city!
To confirm, yes the DWM (Desktop Window Manager) in Windows Vista is not using Managed code. Both WPF and DWM share the underlying graphics stack build on top of Direct3D/DirectX. This is implemeneted in a unmanaged DLL call MilCore.dll. MIL stands for Media Integration Library.
Windows Vista has managed code, just no WPF managed dependencies yet. Media Center is written in Managed code. There are some other random pieces as well (I don't know them all.)
The CLR team is doing work now and into the future to make sure that more components of the OS can be built with it. Right now, I'd say the .Net Runtime is better for ISV/Enterprise/Consumer applications than it is for building Operating Systems.
If WPF/.Net could do everything now, life would be boring. After almost 6 years working on WPF, I'm as exciting as ever about the next wave of things we can do in our future versions.
How can we work with Office better, etc...
Vista is done. Our team keeps learning of great applications/experiences that great designers and developers around the world have built. It is fantastic!
Anyway, gotta go back to VS -- I'm prototyping some new ideas for even cooler things we can do in the next version or two.
I love software!
-Rob Relyea
Program Manager, WPF Team
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
