I haven't done Windows programming for a while, and am just getting back to speed, in the mean time reading about the features in .NET, Longhorn, and Whidbey.
I see the Whidbey release supports a .NET based WebBrowser control, which should be good. However, what I've wanted for a while is just the ability to use HTML within any control and have it formatted richly. So to allow a label, textbox, listbox, button, etc. with HTML formatting, rather than rely on more complicated means of putting together these features.
Will there ever be support for something like this; and if not, why not It seems a very useful and productive thing to have.
brian.shapiro

HTML in controls
ax251
However, the speech server will be about 7 grand, and if used in a winform would have to be integrated via web service, but the easiest would be having controls that represent the invisible asp.net pages....
Back OT, we could really use some help on TaskVision regarding this - we are trying to work with xaml more, and I'm very interested in being able to skin the application by using some form of markup file, however, html might be too difficult to translate, I think we would use what we have in whideby although I haven't had a chance to work with that yet.
miztaken
Will there ever be support for this Yes, Avalon is designed from the ground up for this sort of arbitrary nesting of UI and markup. Unfortunately, it will not be available until Longhorn and it will not be available on down-level OSs.
- mike
DanMoseley
I'm just wondering; Whidbey will be released about a year before Longhorn, by standard estimates. Will there be another release or tools with Longhorn to allow people to take advantage of its features
Also, what type of changes will we see in the development of Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, PocketPC for instance, from a programmers perspective
brian.shapiro