See the Time Management section at http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/03/24/The-Web-best-free-stuff_1.html[^] Glenn Gillette WareFore Analysis www.warefore.com 720-482-1008

I cannot consider WPF, as yet another step in .NET obscurity, for my application-development toolset. I got burned by VS2005 when I wrote a Windows-desktop version of a commercial application for Life Compass™ Cards (www.lifecompasscards.com), then tried to beta-test it among my target audience. Nobody had ever heard of .NET nor did they have it installed on their Windows PCs, even XP, so when the application download (not ClickOnce as it takes too much effort, if at all, on a non-corporate audience) took them to the scary Microsoft geek-speak web-page to download 38MB of code, they panicked & cancelled. Come to discover that despite promises of ubiquity starting in 2000, Microsoft did not generally distribute .NET Framework till Vista, so any install to over 80% of the Windows marketplace comes with an additional, huge download. So, I'm looking to rewrite in something open-source. Got any suggestions?