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Talking C++ in Paris

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I'm blogging live now from Eric Vernie's presentation on using WPF from within VC++ applications.  Despite the fact that I only understand 10% of his French language discussion, the presentation is very engaging, and he's written some really cool code to embed WPF within an MFC application.  I will try to get Eric's work published more widely in English because I think a lot of C++ folks looking to build WPF user interfaces will find it very interesting.

I just finished my presentation on VC++ futures, including an overview of what we're doing for Orcas.  Other than this, I've spent the past couple of days in meetings with a variety of French ISV that are using VC++.  It was really cool to see how this wide variety of customers are employing VC++ to build their software, and the meetings have reinforced my belief that we're on the right track in terms of product strategy as Bill and I discussed in the recent Channel 9 video.

I was also interested to speak today with a developer interested in contributing to ATL Server, which we recently released as shared source, as he was very interested in enhancing the functionality of sproxy (Goodness knows sproxy can use a little updating!).

Hearty thanks to Eric Mittelette of MS France, who kindly arranged the ISV meetings as well as this C++ conference day in Paris!

Vive le C++.

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  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2007
    Well it proves the point you guys are wasting time on .NET integration for over what 5 years now. It is so sad to see other people developing one of the pioneering libraries that most talented and capable people in MS developed. Tell a lot how management is loosing the plot in Redmond. WPF and MFC, ugh.. What about WTL and ATL? What about OLE DB, what about your tools, that you use and that all other technologies use. Doesn't it make more sense to improve that to gain advantage and compete on Web and UI and DB and thin software against competition? Nah, I didn't think so, it is better to go and let your own software (and company strategy) rot. Typical of a company starting a great downfall and losing itself in irrelevant detail of VB and Java-style world. No engineering points there.