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From
23/08/2009 10:01:06
John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
 
 
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23/08/2009 04:29:07
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Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Databases
Environment versions
Environment:
C# 3.0
OS:
Vista
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01419709
Message ID:
01419924
Views:
56
>Hi Craig,
>>- Winforms are won't get updated by Microsoft in the future. WPF is the way to go
>>- The IDE in VS2010 has been rewritten in WPF (believe it or not, the IDE in prior versions was COM-based)
>>- WPF is suitable of all kinds of applications, even data entry. In fact, you can make data entry even easier and better
>>- WPF has a much steeper learning curve than WinForms
>>- WPF tools are still in their infancy. VS2010 definately has the best tools yet, but there is still room for improvement
>
>I haven't checked myself: is WPF on mobile devices ready for prime time ?
>
>regards
>
>thomas

WPF is not supported in the Compact Framework. Silverlight has announced mobile support and I have some apps running on it on my handheld, but it won't be released for quite a while yet.
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