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Evernote's popular note-taking technology has recently moved to release version 4.0 with some major structural changes in terms of the technology's previous adherence to Microsoft .NET and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), versus native code.

Writing on his "IT Writing" software application development blog, British journalist Tim Anderson says that the WPF as part of Windows Vista was originally intended to be the main GUI API for Windows, until the notorious "reset" midway through the Vista development cycle marked a retreat from managed code back to native code in the operating system.

So what are the lessons here? Is WPF no good asks Anderson?

"It is not so simple. WPF is brilliant in many ways, offering the productivity of .NET coding and a powerful layout framework.

However, it was a technology which Microsoft itself hardly used in its key products, Windows and Office — a warning sign," suggests Anderson.
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http://drdobbs.com/cpp/228000453