>>What did you regard as the negatives?
>>Or, conversely, what do you see as the advantages of remaining with WinForms?
>
>The lack of proper integration in VS2008.
Not sure what you are referring to here.....

>The need to buy , learn expression blend to do the same job we now do with >just the VS tools.

What led you to believe you would need Expression Blend? VS2008 has a more-than-adequate design surface for standard Windows apps - which is what you say you develop.

>Everyone here knows how to use and code winforms.
So does everyone here. At some point in the past they also knew how to code VB4, DbaseII, etc...

>The data binding and events.
IMHO, both of those (expecially event handling) are far better in WPF. Why do you prefer the WinForms implementations?

> Having to switch to another tool with no real benefit is costly in terms of lost man hours , train and, additional development tools.

I thought you were asking about possible benefits. If you've already decided that there aren't any then why post?

>At the end of the day we will have the same style forms we had before we started. A form to enter data with a save button isn’t going to change a whole lot. We will have just spent hours and funds.

So what were you using before WinForms and why did you change?
Regards,
Viv