Rundown for my little WPF/Popfly/Silverlight/Blend presentation (v.2)

Windows Presentation Foundation

• Declarative Model
• Xaml : Taking the best form the Web model
  
• CSS-like Styling:
• Transparent
• Animation
• 3D and media support
  
• Data Binding with Business Objects
• Drag and Drop
• Routed Event
  

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

• Demo: MVP on WPF, Simple App, and Simple User Control
• Beta fustration:
• Where the heck is control event?
• Crash once in while. Thank goodness for auto save.
• Behave strangely with TestDriven.net
• Slow update on XAML UI (Require faster hardware for fancy rendering?)
  
• Side note: VMWare Server 1.0.4:
  
• Simple way to test new environment without messing your box.
• Core2Duo native: "Virtualization" support
  
• Fast performance
  
• Free.
  

Blend

• Graphic design tool for Xaml
• Round trip editing between designer and developer
  

Silverlight

• Subset of WPF: Same old Xaml, simplified for scripting
  
• 1.o [Showcase gallery] vs 1.1 [Showcase gallery]
  
• Xaml Pad: Try out Xaml without installing a thing

PopFly

• Microsoft's answer for social networking site Gadget (like iGoogle, gadget in Facebook)
• Overview video
• Right now you can only host projects at Popfly Space
• Value to us: the Xaml based interface, seeing what direction Microsoft heading