{"id":71,"date":"2006-12-04T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-12-04T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:45:36","slug":"wpfe-preview-is-out-but-no-cross-platform-net-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/71-wpfe-preview-is-out-but-no-cross-platform-net-for-now.html","title":{"rendered":"WPF\/E preview is out – but no cross-platform .NET for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has posted a CTP (Community Tech Preview)<\/a> of Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, a cross-platform browser-hosted runtime for XAML, its XML GUI language. There’s a download for Mac as well as Windows, but sadly one of the most intriguing aspects of WPF\/E is not yet included. You can code the CTP with JavaScript, but the promised cross-platform .NET runtime is not in this release. It is still planned though:<\/p>\n

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After the December 2006 CTP, we will also enable a managed code programming model using a subset of full CLR that will enhance the programmability side of the browsers to enable more performant and more scalable Web applications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The quote is from the WPF\/E Architecture Overview<\/a>, which is a great place to start if you want to know what’s in WPF\/E.<\/p>\n

See also this interview with Forest Key<\/a> from back in March, if you have not read it already.<\/p>\n

I’ve downloaded but not tried the samples yet.<\/p>\n

Postscript: Mike Harsh has some more info and a sample WPF\/E video on his blog<\/a>. The humour in the video is somehow typically Microsoft…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: wpfe<\/a>, xaml<\/a>, .net<\/a>, wpf<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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