Monday, December 04, 2006 - Posts

WPF E CTP

Announcing the release of the first "WPF/E" CTP

This morning Microsoft released the first public community technology preview of "WPF/E".  You can install it here, and then try out a few of the early samples that show off some of its capabilities below note: some of the servers might not have finished propagating the samples, so check back later if the links don't work

To learn more about WPF/E, check out this Channel9 video about the project:

Microsoft Introduces Expression Studio, Enhances Family of Professional Design Tools

The Expression family, together with our Visual Studio development tools and platform technologies, uniquely elevates the craft of design and user experience to the forefront of the software development process. Our goal is to enable designers to collaborate like never before with development teams so together they can raise the bar for user experiences and deliver compelling, rich, immersive, highly usable applications and content across the Web, the Windows desktop, mobile devices and the digital home. - S. Somasegar, VP of the Developer Division at Microsoft.

Expression Web is shipping today, and the full Expression Studio is planned for delivery in the second quarter of 2007.

Also launched today is a new professional designer community site

The Panel

MSDN has launched an new site called The Panel

With the advent of the Windows Vista Presentation Foundation and the new Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) stunning 3D visualizations of your applications and animations will be easy to implement. The new Windows Live services and Vista Sidebar Gadgets lead to a new generation of customized mini-applications meeting your customers' needs. The Panel is the place to collect showcases of the new user experiences and provide insights on how they were implemented.

Each featured project provides the applications as well as the source code and explanation in order to help you leverage the new technologies and build better user experiences. The MSDN Flash newsletter will update you on the project status, once you have registered to the Panel as a participant.

If you've been thinking about how to get into Gadgets here is a great opportunity to learn how.

Check-this-out - UniveRSS - a 3D Vista RSS reader!