Windows Vista Team Blog : WPF

New Silverlight DreamScenes for download

Nick White — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:12:00 GMT

The Sliverlight crew has put together a Silverlight DreamScene that they call "Dusk" and are releasing at MIX07 this week, in both standard 4:3 and widescreen 16:9 aspect ratios. The downloads are part of an updated Silverlight-enabled site that the team will be unveiling on Monday 30 April.

But, as Brandon points out in his post, you can get them ahead of everyone else. He has a video of the download as well in case you want to preview it.

Keep your eyes right here on the blog for more MIX07 news ...

Small Software Developers: Get Flying with Windows Vista

James Senior — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:02:00 GMT

Project codename "Glidepath" is an Evangelism initiative targeted at helping MicroISVs get started and be successful with a focus on Windows Vista.

Project Glidepath includes a free software factory add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that delivers, via RSS, guidance, content, code samples, step-by-step instructions and even custom tools that help MicroISVs take full advantage of Windows Vista including .NET 3.0 (WPF, WCF, WF, and CardSpace) as well as many non-technical aspects of being a MicroISV.

Project Glidepath also features the Windows Vista Spotlight highlighting MicroISV applications available worldwide that are compatible with Windows Vista.

Full information plus community forums and a blog are available via www.projectglidepath.net

James’ Go Do: Create some of your own WOW!

New York Times Reader Download Now Available to All

Nick White — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:57:00 GMT

As a follow-up to last week's post on the WinFX version of the New York Times Reader, I've learned that the link allowing access to non-MS and non-NYT emails addresses is finally live -- phew! Go here to see NYT's "First Look" page on the Reader, which will lead you to this page, where it's necessary to pre-register in order to gain access to the download. (Unless you're already an NYT subscriber, that is.)

Check out the New York Times Reader for Windows Vista

Nick White — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:47:00 GMT

You may have read about the Times Reader back in April when it was previewed at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention. It’s now available for download to Windows Vista beta users! The Times Reader enhances the onscreen reading experience through Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft’s advanced display technology in Windows Vista. As readers change font or window size, the text dynamically redraws to optimize both readability and on-screen layout. With WPF, the Times Reader can completely replicate the "look" of the print version of the NY Times, including fonts, typeface and layout, much more closely than its Web site now does.

It’s very cool; here are some hi-res screen shots.