VS 2008

WPF - where were the announcements?

Well TechEd 2008 has come and gone (USA version anyway)

Where were the announcements about new things for WPF?

There was a new beta for Silverlight (Beta 2), which is good as I believe Silverlight will be a great thing for web development

I was hoping there might be something about MVC and composite client for WPF.
If you remember, this was called Acropolis before being ‘folded’ into mainstream VS development

I hope I’m wrong and there is much more to come , maybe at PDC
The long awaited paging grid might be useful

Using Document Outline in VS2008 with WPF

I have recently rediscovered Document Outline in VS2008.

It was something that I relegated, in my head at least, to the world of web

However, I thought about a week ago - wouldn’t it be very handy if it showed me my complex xaml in a tree.
Lo and behold it did, andI could click on each node and go straight to the relevant DataTemplate

It was a nice and clean way to navigate the page, and dare I say it, easier than using Blend.
Obviously Blend has a lot of great features not in VS2008, but is a bit designer like for me sometimes