Codename “Cider†???
Yet another codename from the Microsoft camp; this was mentioned at a presentation at Dev Days 2006 and initially it threw me. I thought the next version of Visual Studio was “Orcasâ€.
But as it turns out, “Cider†is just the codename for the visual designer for Windows Presentation Foundation in the next Visual Studio release and it’s available in the Development Tools for WinFX CTP. This mustn’t be confused with codename “Sparkle†(Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer) which is the graphic designers tool for building WPF forms.
Channel 9 even has a Wiki setup for it.
In the presentation by Ahmed Salijee on Windows Presentation Foundation, he demonstrated how one could successfully work between the 2 environments to work on a form. Typically the visual designer toolset would be more developer focused and the interactive designer, designer focused; but you can easily see a single developer working with both.
Actually, since Ahmed’s presentation, I’m quite keen to play with WPF and see what I can do with it. Maybe I’ll use it for my Black Jack example when I get round to making a windows form interface for it (then again, I could use it for my web interface as well!)
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