Microsoft on Silverlight, WPF 3.5 SP1

Interesting read on Flash vs Silverlight from Microsoft.

It appears we are getting closer to the summer final release of WPF 3.5 SP1 - C9 video here. Deployment in this release has a number of improvements, but from an enterprise perspective it’s not that interesting as every bank already has a way to deploy software automatically onto traders desktops. The WPF performance improvements are a lot more interesting; specifically Text Rendering and WriteableBitmap. But it looks like we’ll have to wait a while longer for the WPF datagrid. I’m guessing Xceed will take advantage of the custom panels with virtualized scrolling and data binding improvements pretty quickly. Overall 3.5 SP1 will provide a much needed lift to building financial applications. Now all we need is the same functionality in Silverlight

~ by mdavey on May 12, 2008.