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WPF
Yes, today Microsoft has confirmed this to the entire developer's world: Visual Studio 2010 IDE will be based on the WPF platform! This is a great news and a sign that WPF is now ready for business applications. WPF will permit us also to easily customize parts of the UI. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio, WPF
I like WPF a lot but I don't like to work manually with XAML too much (maybe because it seems to me that I'm writing an HTML page instead of a Windows application? ). I hope that the WPF Designer inside Visual Studio will be improved always more, but fortunately for the moment there are out some interesting Power Toys that can help your work with WPF to be more "friendly". One of this is the XAML Powertoys, a set of tools with the primary goal of enabling developers to quickly layout and maintain Line of Business Application forms...
We're planning to develop a new custom client LOB application and, by making the analysis document, there's the crucial dilemma: should I choose Windows Form (where all my team is great) or should I choose the new Windows Presentation Foundation? When I've submitted this question, I've received also responses like "Windows Form are dead... we've to move to WPF!". I think that our final choice will be to choose WPF for this project (maye with the interesting Composite Application Guidance for WPF Framework), but absolutely I can't agree to say that "Windows Form is a dead technology". Windows Form is...
With the release of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & Visual Studio 2008 SP1 there's a silent present from Microsoft: the first release (CTP) of the WPF Datagrid. In the past I've blogged few times about this request: WPF is a step to the future for the UI world, but the grid is (in my opinion) the better way to show certain types of informations. The new WPF Datagrid (the official one ) seems really interesting and here you can have more details (Jaime Rodriquez has a EXCELLENT 3 part series on how to customize the DataGrid (Part 1, Part...
Designing flexible and composite applications was a must with Windows Forms and it's a must also for the latest WPF technology. With the clear target to help developers to build composite enterprise applications, Microsoft has published the Composite Application Guidance for WPF. It's a must to check if you're involved on WPF development... Technorati Tag: .NET,WPF
On his new web diary, Silvano Coriani has published an interesting message: in a new software era where the user interface is growing as importance, why the old GRID is always so requested? I agree that with the latest technologies like Windows Presentation Foundation the UI must be revisited and the we've to be ready for a new way to obtain informations from a software and to interact with data, but a new visual experience is not all for a software. A software, expecially in the business world, must be productive! The grid could be an old concept (at least...
In these days of holidays (before starting for my real holiday at the sea) I've spent some of my free time to improve my knowledge about Windows Presentation Foundation. I've to admit that WPF has never attracted me too much (my first impression was that it's too designer-oriented) but this is the future of windows client development so... I'm forced to well undertand it for the near future. From my first WPF view (during the alpha versions of VS 2008) I've to admit that the last Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has lots of improvement around WPF development. Cider (the...
Absolutely one of the coolest examples about WPF: Tim Sneath has signalled that two engineers from Microsoft Switzerland, Ronnie Saurenmann and Ruihua Jin, have put together this 90-page lab that starts at File / New Project and ends with a facsimile of the Outlook 2007 user interface. You can find the lab manual here; the source project you'll need to complete the lab can be found here. Lots of thanks to Tim for the tips and to the two guys for the wonderful (and well done) work. It's the first WPF application with sources available that targets the Winform world...