The future of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and what’s coming next
In 2006 I started working with the first preview versions of the Windows Presentation Foundation with my Trivadis fellow Christoph Pletz. We wrote 2007 the very first German article about MVVM and 2008 I published my first book with the title “Windows Presentation Foundation – the ultimate handbook”.
Since then the consultants of Trivadis and I did a ton of big WPF-projects for several customers. During the last year with the hype around AngularJS and HTML5 many customers asked about the future of WPF. Today I’m happy to announce that Microsoft respective the WPF Team shared their roadmap about that bright future. Find it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/the-roadmap-for-wpf.aspx
I’m very happy to see that Microsoft invested quite a lot of effort into performance-optimization for the next version. Also the Visual Diagnostics tools in the article with the Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer look quite promising. Below a screenshot taken from the article above:
Even Blend has been completely redesigned and supports now differnt things like for example Solution Folders and better Source Control support.
With that next release of WPF I’ll for sure update my book about WPF and bring out a fourth edition next year.
Thomas
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