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What a wonderful day! The Xplatform support announcement also has me rockin'!
/ravi
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I'm pretty sure all days are about the same size.
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Nice idea from the devs @ MSFT , dump all the code on GIT hub,say good bye to all the bugs they have to fix,and chat and play with their iPhones(now we are cross platfom) all day and collect the pay check !
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Wrong.
Monday = 6 letters
Tuesday = 7 letters
(you get the idea)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Holy cow, this is HUGE! That's amazing, I'm actually ecstatic.
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Microsoft just unveiled the first part of their WPF roadmap[^], and I'm now free to talk about it. Yes, the WPF Disciples have been giving feedback for you, and it's good to see that things are progressing. As more details become available, I will let you know.
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An interesting step, but I'm not sure I'm convinced. The impression I get from that "roadmap" is that Visual Studio is getting some amazing updates for XAML/C# generally, but the WPF stack is getting a few bugfixes.
I wonder if they're going to keep improving WPF, or if they're just maintaining it while they push us to WinRT (Still XAML/C# as I understand it, but a different GUI framework). If the former, it'd be nice if they committed to that... If the latter, I'd like to see how difficult porting will be when it comes time to make the move.
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Right now, all I can say, is that there are other features that are being talked about to improve WPF - although a greater interoperability between the WPF desktop stack and the RT stack shouldn't come as a surprise to you. The biggest push that we're aiming at, with MS right now, is improving the all round performance and there are some tricks from the trenches that we've fed back that will hopefully make it into the next release.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: but the WPF stack is getting a few bugfixes
Come, join us MFC-ers to the dark cold caves of the forgotten. We have (cold) cupcackes.
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So basically, the MFCers have cold cupcakes in their cave... The WinForms crowd has popcorn in a run-down apartment...
I'll stick with the WPF crowd... Cinnabons in the penthouse suite. Computationally expensive, and guaranteed to make you sick if you have too much, but it just tastes sooooo good.
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What I'd like to see is WPF and the Windows Runtime XAML stack brought closer together. For example, if the Windows Runtime XAML framework could be used to write desktop applications and not just Windows Store apps, it would become far more attractive to me and I'd be less worried about the future of WPF. There's really no need to have two pretty similiar UI frameworks exisiting side-by-side, merging them in the mid-term only makes sense. Right now, I'm not convinced by the Store application model as it is too restricted in terms of deployment and extensibility. For example, it would be great if I could build an app package targeting the desktop, allow things like dynamic code generation via contracts, and then deploy it via OneGet.
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Loving it!
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Cool!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Really like:
- DirectX interoperability
- Tooling Improvements
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Updates to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Azure and the .NET Framework were announced at a New York City event today that was live-streamed to an estimated 250,000 developers around the world.
Public previews of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 are being made available today—along with new cross-platform tools in Visual Studio 2015—while .NET is going open source and cross-platform. The company also announced a free Community edition of Visual Studio. Holy Microsoft news
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Fantastic news! I (along with many others) was expecting a MS-Xamarin tie up. Great to hear that VS2015 will support cross platform client development out of the box.
/ravi
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Its only comfort calling late...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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It seems that after all the years Microsoft start to invest in developers...Good news...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Language features can take extremely different forms in different languages. However, this does prove conclusively that my language is the best
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I think they got that backward.
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I think he's trying to say, "a language is more than the sum of its parts". Or something. Seemed to fade off into rant territory near the end.
TTFN - Kent
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Well, the language doesn't matter; only the features do.
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I disagree. A well designed language creates a synthesis of features that makes it a pleasure to use.
A poorly designed-by-committee language ends up looking like C++.
Which has many, many features, but isn't exactly the easiest language to learn.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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