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WPF vs. WinForms?
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06/02/2008 10:14:49
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ASP.NET
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Miscellaneous
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01289873
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I wonder, how can it be? My understanding (I admit, very limited) that Silverlight carries .NET framework so that the application can run in a browser without having .NET installed. And I can't say that .NET is light. In fact the friend who inspired me to start this thread said that to develop WPF application, you need a very powerful box (minimum of 2Gb of RAM on Vista, in his words).

>Silverlight is VERY light. It runs in a browser. Memory requirements wouldn't be much more than what the browser requires.
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>>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?
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>>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
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