It's all to do with the Red Queen Hypothesis...
http://www.indiana.edu/~curtweb/Research/Red_Queen%20hyp.html
"At the top of the hill, the
Red Queen begins to run, faster and faster. Alice runs after the Red Queen, but
is further perplexed to find that neither one seems to be moving. When they
stop running, they are in exactly the same place. Alice remarks on this, to
which the Red Queen responds: "Now, here,
you see, it takes all the running you can
do to keep in the same place"
:-)
Kind Regards, Darren neimkedarren.nei...@live.com http://2010wave.blogspot.com
From: g...@mira.net
To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com
Subject: RE: Images invisible
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 14:18:30 +1000
You
certainly find all the issues. Remind me to give you a ping if i'm ever looking
for a beta tester. :p
But,
I’m not even trying to find issues, they just happen, continuously,
unexpectedly. I don’t want any issues. I have been writing software for
30 years in COBOL, Algol, Fortran, IBM assembler, REXX, Clist, C, C++, Java,
Mathematica,
C#, VB6, VB.NET on ICL, Burroughs, Honeywell, Unix and Windows 3.1 to 7 and I
have never had a worst experience before the arrival of XAML, Blend,
Silverlight,
WPF and WCF. I’m deadly serious, all you evangelists out there, all you
keen demo makers and spruikers ...
·
I’m
stuck using two major expensive and utterly different products on two screens
at once (VS and Blend) to write my UI
·
Blend
and VS produce different designer errors and compile failures on the same
project
·
After
more than 2 years of releases I’m still getting Catastrophic Error
messages
·
The
documentation is scattered everywhere (if it exists at all) for different
controls
and kits
·
I
spend half my life web searching for answers to weird behaviour or
incomprehensible fatal errors
·
I
have to jump through hoops to bypass security lockdowns
·
The
VS designer crashes 10 times a day in XAML and I have to uninstall VS plugins
as an attempted cure
·
It
takes hours to get any new control working acceptably
·
I
spend hours tweaking weird unexpected sizing behaviour trying to get the
appearance I desire
·
Even
the Blend designer sizes weirdly
·
First
there were too few controls, now there are too many and too many choices and I’m
getting bloated with DLLs from everywhere and only using tiny bits of each of
them
·
Writing
binding code takes 20 times longer than in Winforms as all the code is pushed
into converters
·
It
takes 20 times longer to write anything in XAML compared to WinForms. One of my
WPF edit screens has dozens of different data types and collections bound to
it, and after a week of writing general purpose Type converters and validators
I still haven’t got all of the two-way binding working acceptably.
·
Now
all of my images have vanished.
·
Getting
a new dev machine to compile Silverlight projects requires a nightmare of
preparations
·
I
live in constant fear that every time I boot my dev machine or open a
Silverlight project that something incomprehensible will go wrong
I’m
fu*king fed up with Silverlight, WPF and WCF. Maybe VS2010, Framework 4 and
Silverlight 4 will improve things, but I can’t migrate until a
batch of releases is finalised over the coming several weeks.
Oh
well, back to work.
Greg
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