>>>WPF is a huge step backward in my opinion. Someday they may advance back to the days when visual development was useful, but what I see now is a giant leap back to the days of hand coding a visual interface a la dbaseIII - with enough @Say commands you eventually get what you need.
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>>>WPF is inexcusable AFAIK.
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>>How so? I think it's because you haven't used it and don't understand the power that it offers. IMO, those who have switched to it or Silverlight will never go back to WinForms.
>>Most people look at it, see the XAML and dismiss it out of hand. Their loss...
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>But he says AFAIK - As Far As I Know. It translates to I know 0 or more and to my knowledge, no? :)
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>PS: My first Silverlight project was done just because I couldn't do what is needed in VFP (and my VFP is much more fluent than my .Net - thought I admit I have never been a good UI painter). No matter where this thing is going in the eyes of others, to me it looks like it is the future of windows based UI (if not also non-windows).
>Cetin


It is and you'll be way ahead of the game if you stick with it and WPF. Forward support for WinForms has been deprecated; ditto for LinQtoSql, so the writing is on the wall for those who wish to read.