You owe it to yourself to use WPF

[Jenner]

I haven't played with 2k10 yet. I know eventually I'll end up using WPF like you. It's something I keep coming back to and if I could manage to get even one successful project written with it, I'd probably stick with it.

Since just about all my work-related projects require very complex forms work and those in charge of the "look and feel" of the program (i.e. Marketing) never seem to like any form of standardized automatic layout, I don't think it's going to happen until I find the time to do a complex enough personal project.

Plus there's the aforementioned *ML issue that I hate. I see all *ML style languages these days as purely moronic as far as syntax is concerned. Nobody would design a language where quotes are needed around every functional statement:

  " "Friend Function RoundToValue "ByVal nValue As Decimal", "ByVal nCeiling As Decimal" As Decimal"
    "Dim tmpVal As Decimal"
    "If nCeiling.Equals(0) Then "Exit Function""

    "tmpVal = "Math.Round "nValue / nCeiling", 0""
    "tmpVal = "Math.Round "tmpVal * nCeiling", 3""

    "Return tmpVal"

    "End Function" "

...but that's essentially what they did with XAML because everyone's on this "must mimic HTML's tag behavior" kick for some reason. Call me old fashioned, but whenever I look at a pile of any *ML style language, my head hurts and it takes me ages to actually find the chunk of code I'm looking for. It's just something I'm going to have to put up with though.