{"id":2077,"date":"2010-01-12T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2077-windows-presentation-foundation-now-ready-too-late.html"},"modified":"2010-01-12T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T09:04:02","slug":"windows-presentation-foundation-now-ready-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2077-windows-presentation-foundation-now-ready-too-late.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Presentation Foundation now ready, too late"},"content":{"rendered":"

The immortal film The Railway Children<\/a> has a scene in which a band plays during an award presentation. Unfortunately a series of false starts delay the performance, until finally it all comes together and the music begins. The camera pans \u2013 the audience has already departed.<\/p>\n

Is it like that for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), Microsoft\u2019s user interface framework which is built on .NET and DirectX and was intended to replace the ancient GDI (Graphics Device Interface) and GDI+?<\/p>\n

In this new post<\/a> I make the case that with WPF 4.0 is the framework is now truly ready to use, not least because Microsoft itself is using it in Visual Studio and the interaction between these two teams has solved a number of problems in WPF.<\/p>\n

But who now wants to develop just for Windows? Well, it makes sense in some contexts, though I note that in the Thoughtworks paper on emerging technology and trends about which I wrote yesterday<\/a>, neither Windows nor WPF gets a mention. Nor for that matter does the Mac, Linux, or OS X, though iPhone and Android feature strongly. The only emerging desktop technology that interests Thoughtworks is the browser.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: wpf<\/a>,microsoft<\/a>,visual studio<\/a>,thoughtworks<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The immortal film The Railway Children has a scene in which a band plays during an award presentation. Unfortunately a series of false starts delay the performance, until finally it all comes together and the music begins. The camera pans \u2013 the audience has already departed.<\/p>\n

Is it like that for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), Microsoft\u2019s user interface framework which is built on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,80],"tags":[586,955,996,1040],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-software-development","tag-microsoft","tag-visual-studio","tag-windows","tag-wpf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}