Programming Then & Now

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I think WPF should remain focused on bridging the gap between winforms, webforms and mobileforms, and not be geared more towards any one of them

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I dont think you have quite understood what WPF is and what it does. It does not bridge the gap between winforms, webforms and mobileforms at all to my knowledge, it is certainly a lot more like winforms than anything else. Having said that, you can have WPF XBAPs which run in a web browser (IE anyway) but have somewhat limited functionality because of this, but thats not generally what most people refer to when they say WPF.

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I also kept my description really simple because at first glance, that's what it looks like and in reality that's basically what it is, XAML is a cross between HTML and XML with some additional enhancements, but with the visual designer you really don't need to know those difference at first and ya learn em as ya go

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When I said that WPF is not just XAML, I meant more as in XAML is just one feature/advantage of WPF - there are a hell of a lot of other things that make WPF better/different when compared to winforms. One thing people tend to be unaware of is that WPF was built from scratch, its not a new version of winforms or something, all of the controls etc were built from scratch and are built using Vector based images which means they can be stretched and animated very smoothly and without loosing any quality and are also completely customisable. Dont like the look of a tab header in a tab control in WPF? You can completely redesign it, make it bigger, change the shape, make it a different colour, whatever. The same goes for any part of any control in WPF.
Anyway sorry I'm straying a little off topic and I havent even mentioned loads of the other things that make WPF great (they are not all related to the visuals) but I just wanted to clarify that its much more than just a different way of placing your controls on a form :)

As I hinted at, I got scolded for not looking at the MSDN documentation before asking. I won't make that mistake again. It gave me what I needed, and a little bit more.

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When I was a wee Freshmen in HIgh school I started programming. I programmed in Pascal and I have a hard time remembering how Writeln works. I then moved on to C++, and stayed coding in C++ in it's various flavors (Unix, Windows, DOS) all through college. Started to play around with Visual basic 2005 version. Which is really nice. I have to say Visual studio, and the .net libraries have made coding easier and more standard. If you know visual basic you can easily port to C# and not spend years relearning everything.

This is the one thing I feel microsoft did right. The OS is lame and I'm thinking of switching to linux, the office software is getting more and more buggy, firefox beats explorer hands down. The visual studio software is just plain awesome and has so many applications. I only wish they would add embedded aplications programming for like Atmel and Pic programmers. Then it would be full circle.