>I'm playing with WPF now, going through Petzold's book. It's hard doing it all in code, but I'm learning about its capabilities. I definately don't have Markus left brain (heck I don't even have his right), but I'm starting to see uses for it. At some point I'll start playing with Cider and Expression, as they should make things easier.

Most of us non-left brainers are not likely to use those tools effectively. <s>...

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>>Exactly...
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>>I think this is Microsoft's own fault. They haven't really laid out a good roadmap for where WPF and WPF/E fits and how we get there from here.
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>>WPF has lots of potential but it's going to take some visionary people who can properly visualize the solutions and provide a pattern where this technology actually makes good sense.
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>>I've been arguing back and forth with Markus about this for some time and while I can see that some folk like Markus who have that left brain intuition down can actually build these ultra rich UIs, the rest of us are going to need much better and easier tools and some guidance on how to utilize it.
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