Vista - WPF apps looking like native on Windows XP ...?

I have a look in two apps from Microsoft in a couple of days:

Windows MEdia PLayer 11
Windows Defender Beta 2

They are lookin like they are developed with WPF/XAML but they do not
require any WinFX installed runtimes.

Do you know something about that...?

Please share some info....

They likely have their own rendering engine for these projects - seperate
to WPF.

You could do this in Windows Forms. Just override OnPaint.

- Doug

> I have a look in two apps from Microsoft in a couple of days:
>
> Windows MEdia PLayer 11
> Windows Defender Beta 2
> They are lookin like they are developed with WPF/XAML but they do not
> require any WinFX installed runtimes.
>
> Do you know something about that...?
>
> Please share some info....
>

I do not believe that they spend so much money to make separate
rendering engines for such a small group of applications. I think it is
rather a converter or a subset of WPF like WPF/E than a separate
engine.

Thanks for proposition with OnPaint I have been using it so far but now
when WPF comes it's too much work with OnPaint to have same effects as
in WPF.

Jakub

There is nothing about these apps to indicate that they've anything to do
with WPF. WMP 9 & 10 had a custom LnFs too remember and they predate WPF. If
Defender was WPF it wouldn't be able to use the button style of custom
themes which I can confirm it does.

<jakub.matias@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I do not believe that they spend so much money to make separate
> rendering engines for such a small group of applications. I think it is
> rather a converter or a subset of WPF like WPF/E than a separate
> engine.
>
> Thanks for proposition with OnPaint I have been using it so far but now
> when WPF comes it's too much work with OnPaint to have same effects as
> in WPF.
>
> Jakub
>