quick WPF request
Old forum URL: forums.lhotka.net/forums/t/7067.aspx
Q Johnson posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2009
My attempts at search to find some interesting threads on the recommendation to use WPF in the 2008 VB book I finally opened last week turned up with nothing like I expected.
I'll bet there must have been some serious chatter about the criteria to use to decide whether to stay with WinForms or make the switch for example.
And surely for those making the shift to WPF, there must have been some talk about morphing code gen templates to bear some of the burden either with code or XAML files. Surely other folks besides me rolled their eyes when they grasped the magnitude of the effort that will be required.
Please just drop a couple of the links here to those threads you liked and let a guy (who overslept and missed this party) catch up with the collective wisdom already shown here.
Thanks to all,
Massong replied on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
A very good WPF blog is “Josh Smith on WPF”:
http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/thinking-in-wpf/
But I will not use WPF until Microsoft solves the blurry text problem in WPF:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/5289ee56-6d06-4f66-84f2-69865b6dc401Massong replied on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Hi Paul,
Thank you for your reply. David Teitlebaum (MSFT) mentions in the forum post that I have linked:
“The current plan is to ship WPF 4.0 Beta 2 with a vastly improved text rendering stack which will allow applications to set many more text rendering parameters than with previous versions of WPF. [...] When [this] glyph layout mode is selected in WPF, the rendered text should look nearly identical to GDI-rendered text.”
In my opinion a text in the Courier New font of the VS2010 beta 1 XAML editor looks like written with an old typewriter (the characters look dirty).
So I am looking forward to beta 2...Fintanv replied on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I just came back from a two day (intensive) training session on WPF and the MVVM pattern for use in LOB apps. Sponsored by MS and taught by Jaime Rodriguez and Karl Shifflett in Phoenix. They have one stop left in Chicago. The days were long (8:30 am to 5:30 pm), but the material and instructors were top notch. The best part was that it was free and MS did not spare the expense account ;-). If you go to either of the above blogs you can get the slides and demos.
Take away message: WPF is full steam ahead for new applications. I have one nearing completion as we speak, backed with CSLA.
Good luck!
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