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Amit Bahree asks :

I was curious as to what happend to the class SimpleText in the WinHEC build? If I have any code that ran on the earlier build - now does now and I get an exception on SimpleText.

We removed SimpleText from the builds a short while after the PDC. You should use the Text element instead. We introduced the Text.TextContent property (of type String) after the PDC to provide easy support for binding (we also provide some storage optimizations when displaying a simple string of text.

We already see a significant amount of user confusion between Text and TextPanel, having a third text control was a bit much (we’d like to only have one, but there are some performance and implementation issues that make that difficult to achieve). SimpleText was introduced as a stopgap to provide good performance and databinding capabilities for displaying text before the PDC, once the functionality was made available in Text, we removed SimpleText.