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Closed 12 years ago.
Is there is any need to pass existing (or developing) projects from WinForms to WPF?
or even Silverlight?
If the project is OK, worth it to be switched in WPF? Can Silverlight replace WPF in the future?
I am asking because there a rumors that Microsoft will abandon WinForm (maintenance and support) for WPF and Silverlight. I believe Winforms will be supported as longer Windows will be?!...
Will the development of Winforms obsolete in a lot of years?
Microsoft has certainly never said that, and there are new Winforms features in VS2010.
Consider the fact that their C++ UI technology from 1992, MFC, continues to be shipped, supported and extended with every version of VS.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I have been hearing and reading lots of rumours around Silverlight 5 being the last release of Silverlight for the PC. Is this true? Is it just rumour?
Its a rumor until Microsoft announces it! :) And no announcements has been made on that.
So start by waiting for the official Silverlight 5 release. After that, we will see if Microsoft still pushes for Silverlight on PCs.
Indeed its not reassuring to see that the Plug-ins are not supported in Windows 8 Metro mode. But Silverlight will stay for sure (at least for mobiles) since its the main development platform of Windows Phone 7. They just cant abandon it.
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Closed 11 years ago.
With windows 8 demonstrating 'native HTML 5 apps'.
The first thing that I think of is whether WPF has a place in this HTML 5 world. It kind of seems like Silverlight will stick around but I must ask : Where does WPF fit into the bigger picture microsoft is painting ?
All that's been said is that this (and where Silverlight , XNA, and C++ fit in) will be announced at the BUILD conference in September. Lots of rumors and speculation, but no announcements.
It's too early to tell. Just because Microsoft demoed a particular feature doesn't mean it's dropping everything else.
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Closed 11 years ago.
So I've been developing in WPF on and off for a little while, and so far labored at making my controls look and behave sleek and intuitively from scratch. The only control suite I've checked out were Infragistics.
What are some cool/sleek/useful/time saving WPF controls you've come across of?
Very nice and free set of controls for displaying graphs: DynamicDataDisplay. Two major flaws - lack of documentation and project seems to be abandoned. But being compared to other libraries I've tried it is the most perfectly constructed.
We`re using the Telerik RadControls! Really good quality, good documentation, good forum support and really cool look and feel.
Check them out under --> http://demos.telerik.com/wpf/
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Closed 10 years ago.
Are there any disadvantages to hosting a Windows Forms Control in a WPF Application?
My first thought is that performance might be hurt a little bit. Also, there is the air gap issue between the forms control and the wpf application.
What Jeff wrote plus there are also some graphical glitches as well (especially when resizing).
My experience:
Slight performance impact. Generally resolvable by using double buffering though...
Some Winforms events are not fired correctly or reliably. This is a known issue and has workarounds although I've found it pretty annoying.
In general though, I've hosted entire Winforms applications in a WPF Browser Application with success.
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Closed 12 years ago.
Will WPF die out and be replaced by a silverlight that continues to be improved ? What is the direction of bothh ...i am asking as i have heard of MS possibly dumping WPF primarily because of percieved or actual performance impact on the snappyness etc of the UI.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834
WPF is for desktop applications, Silverlight for webbased (ala flash) ones, and also for the new Windows Phone 7, Silverlight is just a subset of wpf adjusted for different platforms.. Also - it really depends on the coding, as with everything. If you execute everything in the UI Thread, of course the UI won't be as responsive. I'm coding a wpf application and it is as snappy as a win forms one.
It's relatively unlikely that WPF will die out or be replaced by Silverlight any time soon. Silverlight can't create the kind of rich client applications that WPF can, and like it or not, desktop applications aren't going away any time soon.
Not to mention, Microsoft has written the interface for several of its major software packages in WPF (Visual Studio and Expression Studio). Many of the things these applications are required to do simply can't be done in the kind of sandboxed environment that Silverlight can provide.