Preview Release 0.00000001

Here is the first preview version of the application. It's missing a lot of functionality and will undergo a huge code clean up before 1.0. Give it a shot, and report bugs in the comments if you can.

WARNING: I am using megaupload right now for file storage. It is one of those free online storage places, where you have to jump through a quick hoop to download the item. They sometimes have NOT SAFE FOR WORK ads, so use caution. If anyone has a better solution for executable distribution let me know.

Download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SWE9002H
Source upon request, but it's ugly.

What Works

• Log into Pownce
• Get the authorized list
• Post a message

What Sorta Works

• Post an Event
• Post a link
• Exception Handling

What is broken all to heck

• Text Wrapping
• Message area resizing

What is missing

• ASync Button clicks
• Auto Refresh
• Reply ability
• Correct display of link message
• Twitter Access, all of it
  

First Release coming up...

After integrating a C# project called PownceMonkey, Trownce is now able to login and get a full list of posts. Posting should be complete soon, then a beta version will be released. After an initial release, the code will undergo a cleaning process and the source will be released. After this, a second version of the beta will be released that will allow Twitter access. Once this is integrated, the version will be bumped to 1.Oh.

You can always use another client.

Trownce is a Pownce client designed around Microsoft's .Net 3.5 library. Recently, there has a little confusion as to what exactly is going on with the libraries. There was Avalon, WPF, WPF/E, Silverlight, XAML and WinFX. To summarize it quickly, .Net 3.0 introduced WinFX, which was called later rolled up into the Windows Presentation Foundation set of classes. With .Net 3.0, windows released clusters of functionality and named that with short acronyms like WPF. WPF was a set of really useful tools for building UI's using XAML (The XML used for building Microsoft interfaces). All this while, there was a cross platform plugin developed to run these WinFX/WPF controls online, such as video and what not. This was called Avalon, which was renamed Silverlight when it went more public. The subset of controls which Silverlight uses is called WPF/E. So if you learn WPF, you have your foot in the door of Silverlight. This application was designed to showcase some of the very basic features of WPF and how it can be used with .Net 3.5 to interface with web applications.