>OK.. let me throw out something that could be a need.
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>Let's say your customer has an order entry app. To choose the part, the customer selects a part number from a combo box. Now, what if the customer not only wants to see a part number, but also a picture of the part in that combo box? How are you going to solve this with Winforms?

Write a custom data bound, 2 column combo. I could have it done today. Now maybe in WPF this is already there, and maybe it's alot easier. I'm certainly open to enhanced UI. But there is the tradeoff. How long & how much versus when do I get it.




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>>Need is subjective,.
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>>I mentioned when I posted on this last week that I had picked up a book on WPF. It is written by someone on the MS team related to WPF. It's all about how pretty you app can become. I have still not seen, and not yet heard here either, what else WPF can do other than add flash to my app.
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>>So apparenltly I am missing something. What else can it do for me? And, to extend that question a bit, what else can it do for me that would compel me abandon what's working for me now and to invest countless hours learning something new? These are questions that any sane IT person would ask.
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>>Don't misunderstand me. I'm open to learning new things, but I have to see some value in it. And so far WPF is all about making an app look better. That doesn't add value IMO.