Based on the survey and interviews with WPF developers, Microsoft has been working on improvements in the upcoming releases of Visual Studio 2015.
Some of the areas looked upon are:
- Performance issue like application startup, scrolling and virtualization performance of ItemsControls has been dealt with.
- WPF applications to interoperate with newer versions of DirectX.
- WPF applications can adapt to new hardware capabilities coming to desktop machines.
Fixes in .NET Framework 4.6:
- Multi-image cursor file support in System.Windows.Input.Cursor
- Support for transparent child windows.
- Improved double tap gesture recognition by using common threshold distance from registry.
- Improved text selection through double tapping the WPF TextBox control.
- Improved reliability of stylus input for the WPF ComboBox control.
UI debugger for WPF applications - Microsoft is building a new debugging tools for WPF applications.
Diagnostics tool for WPF applications – Based on survey, problems like slow application startup, poor frame rate and other common performance issues will be addressed with the new diagnostics tool.
Blend for Visual Studio 2015 – Microsoft is working on shortcoming in previous versions of Blend to make it the preferred tool for WPF application development.
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