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WPF/E CTP is Available...Here's My Take
First off…download from here.
Install the ActiveX control and you can get started looking at the examples. Note: downloading an msi/exe is not going to be acceptable to compete with Flash’s autoinstall.
Other than the no-autoinstall, I looked over the examples and have nothing bad to say. For a first shot at this market AND for a CTP release, cudos Microsoft. I didn’t expect to see a page flip effect, hover thumbnails, VIDEO (!!!!!!), etc. I’m impressed.
Of course I had to geek out a bit and look through the code. It seems you have to use a fair amount of Javascript BUT knowing Visual Studio/Expression tools most of that code is probably written for you. One of these days I’m going to dig into the tools and code to try an example. Speaking with Cody today about WPF/E, he feels the ease of development will be the key and I agree. The examples look really nice but that means nothing if it takes 2 weeks to build in WPF/E what would take 2 days in Flash/Flex. This is where I am interested in seeing what happens on the dev’ front.
For now, peep the samples for yourself. Hopefully more samples, tutorials, etc come out so we can all see exactly how WPF/E will likely do in the RIA market.
Posted by John C. Bland II on December 5, 2006 8:55 AM | Permalink
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