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Microsoft deprecates support for XBAP WPF apps in version 5.3 of the Media Center SDK

19November2007GeekTieGuy8 CommentsMicrosoft, Opinion, Software development, Vista, WPF

I downloaded and installed the latest version of the Media Center SDK just now, and was a bit surprised to see that WPF apps are now officially deprecated as a supported way of extending Windows Media Center on Vista. There’s no big announcement around this so far, it’s almost just a footnote in the “What’s

Debugging XBAP applications on Vista using Visual Studio 2005

23January2007GeekTieGuy4 CommentsSoftware development, Vista, WPF

I ran into an interesting little quirk with Visual Studio 2005 on Vista yesterday. I was trying to start an XBAP debugging session from VS (using the F5 key), and none of my breakpoints got triggered. Upon exiting the IE instance that hosts PresentationHost.exe, VS considered the session as still “running”. I had set my

Localizing an XBAP application without using LocBaml

12December2006GeekTieGuy9 CommentsSoftware development, WPF

Using the LocBaml sample application that Microsoft provides with the Windows SDK for Windows Presentation Foundation can be very frustrating. By default it seems to pick up a lot of things that clutter the resulting CSV file. If your application contains a lot of image resources, those will get duplicated in the localized resource dlls

Breaking all rules of software release management

13November2006GeekTieGuyWPF

The project I’m currently working on is getting really close to being done, with Windows Vista having been “RTM”ed recently. We have a few more days to get last minute bugs ironed out and then it’s “off to the factories”… I can’t sayÂ much more about the project right now, but it’sÂ a pretty significant and highly

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Microsoft deprecates support for XBAP WPF apps in version 5.3 of the Media Center SDK

Debugging XBAP applications on Vista using Visual Studio 2005

Localizing an XBAP application without using LocBaml

Breaking all rules of software release management