Matias Woloski’s Blog

Glenn posted about it. I will be collaborating in the project and together with Bil Simser, Ward Bell and Kent Boogaart we will try to make it significant.

I will move the Outlook bar to the contrib project and any other addition I made in the past and will do in the future will go there. Kent already uploaded the WPF CAB layer implementation.

We‘ve been working with the Microsoft Learning group at Redmond to define the upcoming TS (Technology Specialist) exam for WCF 3.5. Howard Dierking hosted the design session and it was a great experience. 

He explained us the refactoring of the exam stack. Now they have these new TS exams that are specific to a single technology and other exams on top of TS called PRO that will be more scenario oriented. They are doing the right thing by bringing Subject Matter Experts to the design sessions. We brainstormed on the most important aspects of WCF that someone should be tested on.

I’ll be waiting for the beta exams to see how it finally shapes… 

Read Miguel’s post about the upcoming support for WPF.

There is no black magic. Simply you will be able to treat WPF smartparts as you treated Winforms smartpart (i.e. dependency injection will apply).

Also you will get a recipe to add a WPF view with a presenter.

People who invested in CAB will have a smooth migration path from Winforms to WPF and a familiar programming model.