Talking C++ in Paris
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++.