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Kevin,
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>Would you advice a beginner to look only at WPF and not waste time on winforms? >
>You're asking me to anticipate what kind of requirements the developer will face. :)
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>Many "rank and file" developers are still building WinForm applications. Keep in mind that WPF only RTMd about a year ago.
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>So I suppose I'd advise someone to take their best educated guess on which one is most strategic for them, and learn that one....but also be familiar with the other.
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>This "either-or" stuff is just plain silly -
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>To be honest, I'm looking more at Silverlight than anything else right now (client wants me to start looking at it)
Can you share why (the reasons) your client is looking at Silverlight? Is this a database application or much more? I would be curious to know the minimum memory and OS requirements necessary to run an average size (about 30-40 windows) database application developed in WPF and/or Silverlight?
My concern of rewriting a VFP application to WPF is not only it will be a gargantuan development task but the customer would have to upgrade the entire hardware to run it.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
