"Microsoft today announced its first collaboration with the open source Eclipse Foundation by committing provide engineering support to allow the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit use Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation. The move aims to make it easier for Java developers to write applications that look and feel like native Windows Vista, according to Microsoft."
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WPF isn't a failure, it is just that the tooling isn't at the point yet where you can approach it like a VB6 programmer (ie: without thought). Its actually my favorite UI platform to work with, and I have tried many of them. But you actually have to learn it before you can use it, as opposed to winforms which is basically drag and drop.
Out of all the 3.5 technologies, WPF is getting the least adoption because of that, which is ironic as it is one of the most impressive (IMO WF was the biggest failure. The idea is "BizTalk lite", but the performance is so abysmal it is only useful in very specific scenarios.)
The funny thing is that one of the silverlight advantages being pushed at us .net guys from redmond is you can "leverage your existing WPF skills". Instead, the way it is turning out is that Silverlight is the driving force in WPF adoption.
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2006-06-03
Having tried for several years, and failed, to make anything worthwhile come out of WPF,
Microsoft PR execs decide to offer it to their main competitors in the hope that they too will be sucked into the massive black holes of failure that always seem to surround managed technologies from Microsoft.
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