Classic Microsoft
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So I read about the new MSDN Reader from the CodeProject newsletter and figured I'll have a look at a real-life WPF app, so grab it from the location offered and fire it up. GUI looks pretty, headlines are well organised and layout is good, only one small problem, none of the articles display anything! So it gets an 8/10 for presentation, and a 0/10 for usability. Oh...hang on...1 of the MSDN Magazine articles displays (3D text in WPF)....so I'll give it ½/10 for usability ;-)
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So I read about the new MSDN Reader from the CodeProject newsletter and figured I'll have a look at a real-life WPF app, so grab it from the location offered and fire it up. GUI looks pretty, headlines are well organised and layout is good, only one small problem, none of the articles display anything! So it gets an 8/10 for presentation, and a 0/10 for usability. Oh...hang on...1 of the MSDN Magazine articles displays (3D text in WPF)....so I'll give it ½/10 for usability ;-)
Try looking at interacting with WPF apps and I can agree: 0 for usability, CPUs max out! Doesn't scale especially with large data, binding. At this more pathetic than Java UI pace, Adobe will rinse them on performance and usability. Not to mention decades of experience in tool building, mark-up and my word, verbosity of it all.
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So I read about the new MSDN Reader from the CodeProject newsletter and figured I'll have a look at a real-life WPF app, so grab it from the location offered and fire it up. GUI looks pretty, headlines are well organised and layout is good, only one small problem, none of the articles display anything! So it gets an 8/10 for presentation, and a 0/10 for usability. Oh...hang on...1 of the MSDN Magazine articles displays (3D text in WPF)....so I'll give it ½/10 for usability ;-)
I upgraded my subscriptions and it works well :)
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So I read about the new MSDN Reader from the CodeProject newsletter and figured I'll have a look at a real-life WPF app, so grab it from the location offered and fire it up. GUI looks pretty, headlines are well organised and layout is good, only one small problem, none of the articles display anything! So it gets an 8/10 for presentation, and a 0/10 for usability. Oh...hang on...1 of the MSDN Magazine articles displays (3D text in WPF)....so I'll give it ½/10 for usability ;-)
I expect we'll see a lot more of this in future: "Hey, check out my new application!" "Cool - that looks really nifty. What does it do?" "Never mind that. Just enjoy the fact that it looks good!"
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I upgraded my subscriptions and it works well :)
Doing an update was the first thing I tried. Then I wondered if it was a firewall issue (I run Comodo) which was unlikely because the headlines show up, but I checked the logs anyway, nothing found. Then I could actually read one of the articles, so that isn't the issue. Tried again this morning and still nothing shows up rather than the header. Not to worry, I found a way: the email button worked, so I sent it to my GMail account, fired up Firefox and read it from there :laugh:
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So I read about the new MSDN Reader from the CodeProject newsletter and figured I'll have a look at a real-life WPF app, so grab it from the location offered and fire it up. GUI looks pretty, headlines are well organised and layout is good, only one small problem, none of the articles display anything! So it gets an 8/10 for presentation, and a 0/10 for usability. Oh...hang on...1 of the MSDN Magazine articles displays (3D text in WPF)....so I'll give it ½/10 for usability ;-)
Looks good to me and works. My only issue is that scrolling down with the mouse scroll wheel, it goes down a page and then another, then poof, the scroll in from the side. I am sure there is probably a difference of artcles and paging that I did not notice. Overall though, it seem to work pretty slick and makes text much more clear (font size adjustments ;) ). Now if they would just add text-to-speech....
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