Mike Sue-Ping
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
That's one of the things that I've noticed too. I've yet to find any books that deal with the issue. As I'd mentioned in a another thread, I'm trying to make the jump to .NET and would like to learn WPF and use it to create useful applications that connects to a database. It would be standard stuff, but, with a WPF UI using VS2008 and/or Expression Blend. So far everything I've come across, IMO, is all flash and no substance. The closest thing I've been able to find is a genealogy application called Family Show but it uses XML files for the data store and to be honest, it's way above my head. I need a noob tutorial approach to this stuff.
>I've been following some of the talk about 'is WinForms dead' and all that as I consider learning WPF. It looks cool, but all the examples I have seen are for these over-the-top apps that you wouldn't see running on most business desktops as you walk down the hall of a small or mid-sized business.
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>I wish someone would build a WPF demo of just a regular old line-of-business database app, like the one I wrote for our small machine shop to track jobs, time, material, etc. I think that style of software will be around for a long time, and often gets overlooked with all the dog-and-pony-show WPF demos.
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>How about just use WPF to build on of those old-school UI apps, just to show that it can be done.
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