In Windows 7 (and Vista) is WPF used for the taskbar, the widgets, explorer or for anything else of the OS ?
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I know that WPF is not used in the Explorer shell (I recall a blog post by Raymond Chen saying that .NET shouldn't be used in Explorer, but I can't recall for sure). I don't think it's used in any of the other utility apps that ship with Windows 7, but I'm not sure about that.
Andy
2009-09-06 22:36:43
Don't do Shell Extension Handlers in .NET: http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2005/11/18/494572.aspx
Mauricio Scheffer
2009-09-06 23:16:11
+3
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No. The Windows Explorer doesn't use it, none of Windows built-in utilities use it, Office 2007 doesn't use it... AFAIK, the only MS app that uses WPF so far is the upcoming Visual Studio 2010
Thomas Levesque
2009-09-06 22:44:27