Without more information on the type of application you're planning, my suggestion would be to if at all possible keep everything in the family in either case.
I'm sure some of the hardcore guys here will jump all over me, but if you're going to have a .Net frontend, than it would be a lot easier to integrate it with a .Net backend. On the same token, depending on what you need for the app, I would suggest some serious consideration into AIR for the desktop. It can offer a way easier route as far as integration with a CF backend and the applications themselves can be much more intuitive than regular desktop applications... !k -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Strutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 3:41 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Anyone played with WPF (Windows Presentation Framework)? I've played with it just a bit. It can drop out some fairly nice interfaces and the XML is pretty well structured in the way that everything seems to make sense and skill translation from HTML+CSS is not that difficult. I decided not to use it, however, as the thing I was playing with is a wide release customer-facing desktop app, and WPF requires the .NET framework 3.5, which is like 200MB, and not that widely available. I'm considering Air vs WinForms (.net 2.0) right now. When you say "disk based" - you mean like System.IO file & directory interaction? If that's the case, I highly recommend .NET. It tends to be remarkably fast in this category. nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:26 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Cross-posting from CF-Community, sorry if you get this twice) > > I'm starting to do some disk based programming work and have hit an > interesting roadblock. > > We've (my bosses, actually) want to use .NET for the disk based apps, > but now that I have VS 2008 I'm presented with WinForms or WPF. From > the look of things, WPF is where Microsoft is headed with the UI > fight. > > Has anyone had to make this decision? > Does anyone have resources (web or email) for this? > > When it comes to web, I've sold them on using CF to integrate with > ..NET... (*yay*) but we have to decide on the disk-based solution. > I've been playing around with both and my biggest stumbling block is > the actual planning out of the interface. Amazing how much having a > browser to contain everything can alleviate interface nightmares! > > Hatton > > -- > George Burns - "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." > > > > -- > George Burns - "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308706 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
