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23/08/2009 14:47:10
 
 
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23/08/2009 14:41:05
John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
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ASP.NET
Category:
Databases
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Environment:
C# 3.0
OS:
Vista
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01419709
Message ID:
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>>>>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.
>>
>>http://www.keithelder.net/blog/archive/2007/05/09/WPFE-SilverLight-and-Windows-Mobile-Yes-I-Was-Right.aspx
>
>Tracy,
>
>WPF/e doesn't exist, it morphed into silverlight. Again, what I posted is correct. WPF doesn't exist for the mobile platform, but silverlight does, it just hasn't been released yet.

I realize that. I posted that link to show other discussions that have been occuring over the past couple of years about the same subject.
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