This is what you can expect in Visual Studio 2008(Orcas) related to WPF!

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• Performance

– Overall, moderate improvements on CPU consumption & working set.

– Increased animation smoothness

– Layered Windows perf improvements for both XP & Vista.

– More performant Xml databinding

• IME support fixes

• Firefox Plugin Support for XBAP’s

• File Extensions for Click-Once Applications

• Session & Resource Cookie Support in XBAP’s

• Framework Element 3D

• AddInControl supporting CLR’s addin model

• Support for IDataErrorInfo

• RichTextBox Extensibility

• Increased databinding debug spew

• Support for page transition effects