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>>>>There was a nice demo on DNR TV showing a REAL business application put together with WPF:
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>>>>http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=115
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>>>>It gives you a better idea of what is possible. The one question to ask yourself (esp. if you have a vertical market app) - how hard of a time would I have selling my app if I was competing a vendor that had an app that looked like that vs my current app? Regardless of features people have a (positive) gut reaction to attractive UI's.
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>>>Thanks Paul
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>>>I watched the video. Certainly the app looked nice.
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>>>From the implied size of the development team I would also guess its not cheap.
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>>He said three people, three months so far I believe.
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>>But I'm sure that this could be done by one person in half that time in VFP <bg>
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>Did I say that ?
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>No I didn't but three people three months so far . How much would you reckon on that costing.
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>90% of the functionality could be supplied very quickly (not necessarily in Fox). Spending a lot of time in how something looks may not be cost effective. For instance the yellow stickies.

Did you see the code demo for those at the end of the video. It *doesn't* take a lot of time or effort. The amount of code is minimal. I've got a scrolling listbox built on the same principal. It took an hour or so - but of course you can spend more time playing with gradients etc. if you want to.

At a guess the biggest challange they face will be defining the 'best-match' alogrithm between the employers requirements and employee skills/availability.
Best,
Viv

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>BTW reading some Elmore Leonard at the moment (Fire in the Hole) enjoying it.