WPF Performance Service Update, Summer 2008 + Microsoft WPF DataGrid
Nice to see Scott blog about the WPF Service Update that is due this summer – I’ve been aware of it for quite some time, but constrained by the normal Microsoft NDA 
I’m curious to know if the performance improvements Microsoft are implementing are coming from the WPF Framework, or the actual rendering pipeline (DirectX)?
Possible one of the best pieces of news is that Microsoft is going to ship a WPF DataGrid – about time !!!! I know a lot of clients have been asking Microsoft for this.
“data virtualization”, will these improve scrolling? Xceed’s grid scrolling is satisfactory in certain situations, but nowhere near as fast as an optimized WinForm/Java application.
Maybe Microsoft can resolve the Blurry Font issue in this timeframe as well?
I guess that most of the improvements are in milcore. DirectX is mostly about hardware abstraction and has already reached great maturity, whereas WPF is still pretty green.