WPF Week At About Visual Basic

I'm not sure you noticed (I sure did!) but Microsoft stopped offering their great free in person MSDN events a few months back. But starting now, they're back. I've spent some time (and some of the travel budget) to check out the changes that have been introduced. One is that they're being offered in Microsoft offices, not movie theaters and hotels anymore. I guess the hard times are biting everybody.

It's interesting what they picked for the first of the new series, however ... WPF! - Windows Presentation Foundation. Not Visual Studio 2010. Not Silverlight. (Both of those are based on WPF.) It shows how important this new technology is in Microsoft's future. Blogs will feature things that I've learned ... and things you can learn ... about WPF every day this week.

Microsoft Launches a New WPF Focused Website

When Microsoft wants to really pump something up ... they lauch a website.

WindowsClient.NET is devoted to the technologies that developers use to create the client side of the client/server partnership. Microsoft includes "Windows Forms" in the sub-heading, but if you browse it at all, you'll quickly realize that it's all about Windows Presentation Foundation. In a repeat of our experience when they were digging the grave for VB6, the "Windows Forms" articles are really about how to move from Windows Forms to WPF.

Some of it is "amateur hour" stuff because the site is wide open. (Want directions to bike from the Microsoft campus to Whidbey Island? It's a featured article!) But it's still a great hub to find all kinds of information about WPF.