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What controls?

Does WPF/E contain any controls, like button, text box, combo I didn't see any in the SDK documentation. I also didn't see anything that looked like a Table, or FlowPanel. If not then it seems this technology can't really be used to design an application that runs inside of a web browser. You could probably build a button via rectangle objects and click events but I don't know how you'd build a text input control. You could create a hodgepodge application with some HTML controls and some WPF/E graphics but I doubt this would be a compelling user experience; you'd suffer from the inconsistent rendering of CSS/HTML across browsers. It looks to me like the vision for WPF/E has been scaled back - no minimal C# and no controls.

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What controls?

  • Jane2006

    The docs mention the programming model involving XAML + the .NET Framework Subset using C# etc will be after the December CTP

    They're probably just given us the really stable bits to play with.

    "After the December 2006 CTP, we will also enable a managed code programming model using a subset of full CLR that will enhance the programmability side of the browsers to enable more performant and more scalable Web applications"

    from

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190633.aspx

  • Hazze

    Hmm... I always remember hearing that the first CTP wouldn't contain the new portable CLR stuff, so I'd imagine thats still the case. This release probably doesn't have the full feature set. I would love to hear from someone official what the proposed time table for the rest of these features are though.

  • ekkapop

    Mike Harsh gave a good answer to this on his blog:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2006/12/06/what-is-wpf-e-really.aspx

  • ParrotHead

    Thanks for that, very helpful.

  • nil130180

    Those controls are what I am waiting for - even if it is just the basics, edit box, combo, datepicker, button & listview - would these make it into the next CTP
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