Are you developing with WPF?
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Josh Smith wrote:
I've created an app for a modeling agency in WPF and it turned out great (imo).
Screenshots allowed?
Ed.Poore wrote:
Screenshots allowed?
It will be in a video by MSFT (I can't say which one yet). The video be on the web soon enough (prbly Channel9). :cool:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle -
Following up on Weiye Chen's post a few posts below, are you developing with WPF yet? If so, has your company (or you) required that the developers put together snazzy eye candy with WPF or have you/your company hired WPF/UI "experts"? And the real question is, does WPF (meaning in this case the vector graphics stuff) improved the usability of your application, or is it more like a glittering dress with the same wrinkled old woman underneath, albeit with new makeup? (or if you prefer, the same dirty old man dressed up in a tux?) Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithNope - no .NET at all - I can't rely on the runtime being available and admin-requiring installs are a no-no. So, it's native code (in C++) all the way - oh, and the standard UI of the tools I write is the command-line :-) - it suits the type of tool and environment that I target 90% of the time, anyway.
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Ed.Poore wrote:
Screenshots allowed?
It will be in a video by MSFT (I can't say which one yet). The video be on the web soon enough (prbly Channel9). :cool:
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle -
Following up on Weiye Chen's post a few posts below, are you developing with WPF yet? If so, has your company (or you) required that the developers put together snazzy eye candy with WPF or have you/your company hired WPF/UI "experts"? And the real question is, does WPF (meaning in this case the vector graphics stuff) improved the usability of your application, or is it more like a glittering dress with the same wrinkled old woman underneath, albeit with new makeup? (or if you prefer, the same dirty old man dressed up in a tux?) Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithGetting ready to start a project that will *probably* use WPF. I have been experimenting with it for the last few days, and so far I have been impressed with the results. The developer support for it is pretty bad right now, but I'm sure that will improve with time. We do have a UI "expert" but he is more on the usability side. We are looking at WPF for it's skinning capabilities and it's compositional nature. There will probably end up being some eye candy that creeps in but we are going to try to keep it to a minimum.
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Following up on Weiye Chen's post a few posts below, are you developing with WPF yet? If so, has your company (or you) required that the developers put together snazzy eye candy with WPF or have you/your company hired WPF/UI "experts"? And the real question is, does WPF (meaning in this case the vector graphics stuff) improved the usability of your application, or is it more like a glittering dress with the same wrinkled old woman underneath, albeit with new makeup? (or if you prefer, the same dirty old man dressed up in a tux?) Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithI sure plan to when I can find the time to really focus on it. There is a lot more to it than just making things pretty. But for some examples, you might check out some of Josh Smith articles on the topic and his blog. As an example though: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CustomTreeViewLayout.asp[^] While I do not have specific use for such a layout, it is amazing how flexible the UI is allow you far more options in building out a GUI than the simple controls provided with Windows. The UI is finally wide open and easy to build things such as animations with little effort. I personally think that a UI is as important as the middle and backend of an application and the more power we can apply the better. Of course, it does depend on how people use it :) As a side note, depending on the app, eye candy can make it more friendly and inviting not to mention, make it sell. I remember Gizmos98 (IIRC the name correctly). That seem to sell quickly at $50 each while providing very little in functionality, it sold basically because of eye candy.
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