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BillWoodruff28-Jul-10 18:12
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Hi BobishKindaGuy,

What an excellent discussion you have set off, thanks. My personal opinion is that we are in a time of a great "flux" of technologies converging on bridging what have been the disparate worlds of "desktop applications" (control intensive, data intensive) and web-sites (content intensive, navigation intensive).

Having a substantial investment in C# and WinForms, I have of course considered moving to ASP.NET and its recent MVC MVVM flavours with Ajax : but when you look at what a dog Ajax turned out to be, and the current ubiquitous adoption of JavaScript libraries like jQuery by MS, I'm tempted to follow the lead of a world-class .NET developer I know and just "jump ship" for PhP, using jQuery for interface.

Of course I want the "deeper" graphics object/model of WPF, of course I want the more sophisticated event model of WPF, and the powerful binding concepts of WPF, but going back and forth between XAML and C# is, for me, a trip back to the stone age. But I also want to use the great 3rd. party WinForm controls I've invested in learning how to use well.

It says "acres" to me about SilverLight that on my .NET development machine here (Win Vista, using IE8) with all the latest updates installed for everything related to .NET, SilverLight, etc. that going to the myVBProf page you mention starts a full-screen SilverLight app which loads 100% but never plays with a JavaScript error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:35:59 UTC

Message: '_gat' is undefined
Line: 113
Char: 9
Code: 0
URI: http://www.myvbprof.com/MainSite/index.aspx



imho it's far from clear that WPF and SilverLight are here for the "long run," and the upcoming HTML 5 standard, and possibly an "ex-Flash" era, coupled with the surge toward applications that can be viewed on small/mobile devices is going to change the game. I haven't yet really taken a look at Adobe's Air, and the current incarnations of DreamWeaver, etc., and how they play together with Flash.

All kinds of strange, mutant technologies are springing up trying to bridge web and desktop application paradigms ... Aptana Studio (Aptana ... okay, it's an IDE, not really that strange) and Alpha 5 (AlphaSoftware) come to mind) ... as well as what are, imho, "grandiose" attempts, like Titanium (Appcellerator), to cross not only platform boundaries, but device form-factor boundaries, also.

I'm waiting a while longer to decide which Web technology to invest in.

best, Bill
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