Firstly thanks to all who have contributed to this conversation. I feel a little better knowing I am not alone - but that still won't solve my problems. (Current issues are with LINQ to entities not playing nicely)
I guess I have been becoming a little frustrated with the sheer amount on "New" products available - with a lot of cross over. I recall back in the very early .net days I spent time evaluating remoting and asmx web services. There with the push towards remoting for inside the network, so I spent the next few months (6+) learning it - and for the record it worked very well (and from what I understand the company is still using my code today). But my lord it was painful... only to be superseded by WCF. And then LINQ to SQL, and then LINQ to Entities It's very hard to know where to spend time what to learn. Gone are the days where one can be skilled in all aspects. I have been holding off the WPF for a few reasons; Most of my work is for corporate - where I am building internal apps that don't need the reach, but need to play with the OS. I could never fully understand why there was such a push for Silverlight and not much for WPF. I figured it was a marketing thing. But now with Silverlight 4 those boundaries are now very blurry. Will Silverlight and WPF will become 1???? I could never understand why there just isn't much adoption. Avalon was first released over 4 years ago! I do have more confidence now with VS2010 but still I would have expected more. That said though there may be lots being corporate walls. Most examples are about the eye candy and how cool is this. I really liked the Patient monitoring app demo, but was really put off when I installed it and watched my processor jump to 100% when it was full screen. But that was a few frameworks ago. And let's not get into HTML5 v Silverlight 4 debate. I will be taking the advice of persevering - I can see the potential and as was rightly pointed out, I have forgotten how long it took to learn forms and there is no client pressing me for this particular app - It my personal learning journey. Now if only we could get the internet deleted and start fresh with relevant and current information - not random posts about beta 1 of product X it may be easier to find solutions :-) (Date your posts people) Cheers Alastair Important Notice This email contains information which is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Please notify the sender immediately if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this email from your system. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information contained or attached is strictly prohibited. Although Disability Services Commission has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the Commission cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. _______________________________________________ ozwpf mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf
