Perhaps they realised it's a little too raw for their core audience of desktop app developers.

I picked up a book on WPF and by page 100 odd you are now supposed to have a gradient with a couple of standard buttons.

Great, thats like VB1 and HTML just another interpretation (and with style embedded in layout/content).

WPF needs some better higher-level controls to make it worthwhile to anyone but specialist-UI applications imho.

[)amien

There is built-in WPF designer and project support in VS 2008.  I'll blog more about this over the next few weeks.

Hope this helps,

Scott

The WPF team didn't get any changes into B1 of Orcas, as we were busy finishing work on Windows Vista last year, so we got a later start than many groups in .Net.  Now, the about to be released beta2 of .Net 3.5(/3.0sp1), will give us an opportunity to get a set of improvements out in your hands...now we'll be able to  discuss what we have done.  I think it is a smaller release for us than a .5 increment update indicates, but we believe we've done a good set of work than many will find valuable.

Look forward to the discussion.

Keep your feedback coming...we are listening.

Thanks, Rob

Rob Relyea, Program Manager, WPF & Xaml Language Team

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