Friday, June 26, 2009

WPF - The Content Cloud Project

Back in late 2006 , when WPF was at it's infancy , i worked with a XBAP application to display the the contents of Skyscrapr site in a visual form. You can read more about the interface at the blog site of Simon Guest.

The Original application was written by an intern at Microsoft Research. I was entrusted to re-engineer the application as a XBAP program. One can retrieve the application from
http://files.skyscrapr.net/users/ContentMap/SocialNetWorkWPF.xbap


For applications which require incidental rendering need, GDI+ with it's coarse grained API is a better one. I had to write lot of Emulation routine to port the application. At least , i realized that
porting GDI+ application to WPF is not easy as one might think.

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