>>>>>>It took 11 years to update FORTRAN from FORTRAN 66 to FORTRAN 77. It takes Microsoft 3 months to update Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4. Such is progress and the acceleration of life.
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>>>>>>Pertti
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>>>>>Don't worry, our clients pay between 5-15 million a year in licensing/support fees to use our software and we are the market leader both here in the US and gaining momentum in the European market.
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>>>>>There is a reason for the accelerated release schedule for Silverlight. When it was originally released, you couldn't do anything other than a media player with it. Tehre was such an outcry for useful LOB app tools that they caved and began adding capabilities to it. There have been a few interesting blog posts recently talking about the convergence of silverlight and wpf into a single code base. You'll probably see it slow down after the next 1 or two releases. We have a rich tool now for building LOB apps.
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>>>>Sounds amazing. Are you using RIA for this, and if so do you see adequate performance? There has been some criticism about slow speeds with RIA.
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>>>No. We are constrined from using beta or no-go license software. We just upgraded to silverlight 3 when it was officially released.
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>>Sounds familiar :-)
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>>I just thought that since your release is over a year away, you might actually want to use beta stuff at this point to be on top of the curve when you finally release.
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>We're a year into development, we have to release on 1 April, so we have about 4 months left
And how is it looking for you guys? Is all the functionality going to be in your .net app that is in your vfp app? How's the speed? Are you doing web app or specifically a silverlight app or just a winform app? This is of great interest to me -- seeing how a vfp application makes it into .net.
fyi, I just ran through VS 2010/Silverlight 4/RIA -based tutorial, and I was blown away by what can now be done with these tools. I could actually see starting a rewrite of a few vfp apps as soon as these tools go to RTM. With the visual design surface and the drag-and-drop databinding, data manipulation is becoming ridiculously easy even in .net now. THere's still the learning curve, for sure, but the new tools smooth the way quite a lot. Another nice thing about this is that as the tools generate code I can take a look at it and learn the intricacies of XAML and WFP code behind.
Here's the link:
http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/all/ria-services-support-visual-studio-2010/ -- a "mere" 17 minutes for this one, and during that time you build a many-to-one searchable screen with sortable grid, paging, editing, etc. Nice.
