> > .Net4 and .Net3.5 can co-exist as far as I know. You're right, they can. The secondary process for my product uses a mix of 3.5 and 4.0 assemblies, but the host application doesn't support 4.0.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Glen Harvy <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > No doubt this thread will be 'hijacked' into a Winforms vs WPF discussion > however your later comments as to why appear perfectly valid to me except > for one thing which need not be discussed here - .Net4 and .Net3.5 can > co-exist as far as I know. > > Have a look at MyCourts. It's at http://www.mycourts.com.au . > > It's Winforms but uses DevExpress controls extensively. The DevEx controls > and skins add enough glitz for my purposes. I have often thought about > porting it to WPF but have decided that the effort is not worth it. At the > end of the day, I don't think WPF in itself will add one more sale of > MyCourts to my bottom line. > > I understand that DevEx have a number of WPF controls as well so perhaps > you could 'keep' some of the glitzy UI. You could perhaps sell the switch to > your Manager without him actually being fully aware of your technical > changes :-) > > Good luck. > > > On 18/08/2011 2:33 PM, Matt Siebert wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Can anyone point out some particularly good looking WinForms apps? > Screenshots will do, a working app I could show someone would be better. > > This is a bit of a strange request so I should probably explain a > little... > > We've built a product using WPF but we have lots of constraints imposed > by the environment we're coding for. This has caused a lot of extra work > with more to come. As such, I don't think WPF is the right choice and I'm > trying to convince my manager that it's worth considering switching to > WinForms which is much better suited to this environment. He's not a > developer and is fairly visually oriented, and he's worried that if we were > to use WinForms then we may not be able to produce a good GUI / UX. I've > assured him that this isn't the case but some good examples would help. > > Cheers. > >
