Albert

What type of developer are you i.e. are you a contractor for hire, a developer of off-the-shelf-systems for re-sale, or looking continuous employment? I am asking because that will influence what skills you want, or perhaps should consider, to acquire.



>Hi Anatoliy,
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>I realize that this is a very old thread: but picking up on it, does any of the below need to be updated now 4 years later?
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>Thanks,
>Albert
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>>Hi Tore,
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>>IMHO, Windows Forms are out of fashion, so to speak. WPF is still a very good technology. I hope it is not going to follow Silverlight's decline pattern. You will be amazed with WPF Data Binding, mainly in a good sense :)
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>>Consider using a control library: Telerik, DevExpress, Infragistics etc.
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>>Consider using an ORM: Entity Framework, NHibernate, OpenAccess etc.
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>>Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is also a very good time investment.