>We're also a short stint into development of a new system in Winforms, Viv, do you see WPF as ready for the real world?
I'm not Viv... but I'll toss in my 2 cents anyways.
>Will it work on any XP and up computer (even if bad hardware or will it just not work)?I haven't tested yet, but my understanding it that as long as it has a decent graphics card it should be OK.
>Also, is data access and connection to SQL the same, does it use ADO.NET?Access is the same. Binding is different.
>In your research did you notice any feature/capability loss in WPF that exists in Winforms?No autocomplete on Textboxes is one. <g> (Subject of this thread.)
No datagrid yet is another. I'm using the free one from xceed. But MS should be providing one soon.
But there are also a ton of gains, mostly in the graphics area.