Datasets ! I'm there :-)


>>WPF will not have any "new" stuff in VS 2010 either.
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>There's a new designer surface with, amongst other things, support for Drag and Drop data binding - not just to Datasets (probably a bad thing anyway) but to Objects (e.g. EF EntityObjects) which opens up a much more useful set of possiblities. But there's nothing there that couldn't currently be achieved in code.
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>>If you want to develop "eye candy", use WPF; if you want to do "serious" Windows desktop data entry / data transformations / data binding / data validation, use Winforms. If you need both, do both, in the same App, because you can.
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>>WPF is still lacking a serious DataGridView, DatePicker, Calendar, MaskedTextBox, BindingNavigator; to name a few. You have to resort to the WPF Toolkit to get some of these features. So, it's not a question of one or the other; at this time. If you are developing serious "business" apps, you cannot afford to ignore WinForms yet. Use both.
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>>People who claim WinForms is "dead" don't know what they're talking about.
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>>(One reason why WinForms has no new stuff is because is is already very good doing what it does. IMO)
>Or looked at another way : it's reached the limits of its possibilities :-}
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>>>I am new at Visual Studio, or to some degree new, although I've had a few classes in C#. I am new in the sense of my commitment to learning Visual Studio.
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>>>So, in reading CODE Magazine early this morning, I read an article about the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and how Windows Foms will no longer be updated or enhanced by Microsoft in Visual Studio, which means the VS 2010 version coming out next year will have no new "stuff" for Windows Forms. Is WPF that good and fantastic that Microsoft will completely abandon any work on Windows Forms?
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>>>My question is really this:
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>>>What makes Windows Presentation Forms so great? I'd just like a layman's level of understanding on this subject.
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>>>Of course, the Microsoft God has spoken and so we go with WPF, but I am curious as to what the reasons are.
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>>>Cecil