QuickLink: http://sessions.visitmix.com/, search for Session: T11.
A lot of what you are currently missing in WPF will come with .net Framework 3.5 “Servicing Release”:
- Container Recycling for ItemsControl (as base class)
- DeferredScrolling (in TreeView)
- don’t know if I will ever use it
- DataGrid (new)
- Value formating without value converter
- you know String.Format()?, use it in a declarative way<g>
- Effects
- great looking HW interaction with shaders
- WriteableBitmap
- writeable surface which is completly integrated in the WPF rendering pipeline
- DXInterop
- Might become a killer feature. (At least team-mediaportal.com would have had some use for it)
Check out Rob Relyea’s session “What is new in WPF 3.5 and Beyond” to get a feeling for all the new features coming. Bits are currently not available for download.
- tobias