Re: XAML and WPF

Cool, I can have someone else, not a programmer, create my front-end for
me.

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From: systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craig Pelkie
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:35 PM
To: .net use with the System i
Subject: Re: [SystemiDotNet] XAML and WPF

It looks like the best layout tool for XAML right now is Expression
Blend 3
(no-charge download on MSFT for a trial period). Looks like a "goth"
version
of Visual Studio (fire it up, you'll see what I mean).

I haven't quite figured out how to resize controls once they're on a
surface, usually end up going right to the XAML (there is an over/under
view
of the designer and the XAML source code).

After initial layout (which creates a Visual Studio style project), I
just
close it and go over to VS2008 and open the project for the code
writing.

Craig Pelkie


----- Original Message -----
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ".net use with the System i" <systemidotnet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [SystemiDotNet] XAML and WPF

Being a web guy I've not paid much attention to XAML and WPF. But my
recollection is that the tooling around XAML is not great yet. It's

like

a throwback to MFC days. That's not to say that XAML doesn't rock,
rather there aren't great tools for constructing it. Has that changed?

As far as using XAML in WPF, isn't that a core technology. It would

seem

silly to move to WPF and not use XAML, no?

And all Petzold books are good! :-)


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-----Original Message-----
From: systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:57 AM
To: .net use with the System i
Subject: [SystemiDotNet] XAML and WPF

I think I have decided to switch from windows forms to WPF for my
desktop programming. The Petzold book on WPF is pretty good. One thing
I like about it is that in the first part of the book all the WPF code
presented is in a WinForms style, without XAML. What I am trying to
research now is whether I should use XAML or not. Here is a good
article on XAML: http://kentb.blogspot.com/2008/01/xaml.html
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