Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

2015-09-24 Thread Scott Barnes
As long as Windows is alive so is WPF and WinForms and while they are "dead" in terms of roadmap advancements they are and will be supported for 20yrs (or give or take a few years). Microsoft has certain rules about killing tech like these and given there are military and govt contracts in play ki

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

2015-09-24 Thread Greg Keogh
I delayed going to WPF for years as I was so familiar with WinForms and it had a designer (which occasionally gets corrupted). If you want a reasonably standard UI then both WinForms and WPF produce similar results, but if you want a user "experience" then WPF has all the transformations and eye ca

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

2015-09-24 Thread DotNet Dude
Universal apps ad xaml are still getting quite a push from MS On Friday, 25 September 2015, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Nope. They are dead. (As far as I'm concerned) unless you really really > really really need to go down that crazy path. > > If you really really want a desktop app I'd look in

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

2015-09-24 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Nope. They are dead. (As far as I'm concerned) unless you really really really really need to go down that crazy path. If you really really want a desktop app I'd look into http://electron.atom.io/ to run a cross-platform "desktop" app build with web technologies on top of Chrome. Atom editor is b

[OT] WPF or Winforms?

2015-09-24 Thread Tom Rutter
Anyone here still using winforms? Any reason to start new projects in winforms over WPF? How far has WPF come in the last several years?