I think that the topic of WPF has been briefly discussed in the past. However, we are now seeing beta releases of VS2010 which should, all being well, mean that a release  may be around by the end of the year, or maybe sooner for MSDN subscribers.

Many 3rd party toolsets now incorporate some WPF controls and as time moves on it is apparent that this will gather impetus and the current windows forms development will become legacy. Are Microfour moving in the WPF direction? If so, is there a timeline where we might see such controls appear in a beta. I realise that there has been much discussion of XAML and how the toolsets don't really offer good support at this time, but the latest editions of Expression and the VS2010 are great improvments over what is currently available. Above all this I like the idea of being able to offload the interface drawing to the GPU, given this advantage I have started down the road of getting my head around XAML, its a long road with lots of dead ends but this is a direction I want to go in.

Just as an interim would it be possible to use WPF controls, but introduce the Strataframe binding options into those control, like what can be done with the BBS and a current non-SF windows forms control.

I know you guys won't be left behind by this, it would just help some of us to plan our development too.

regards

Geoff.