By Don Burnett
I love reading ZDNET and all of their blogging Pundits. One of my favorite blogs there is Mary Jo Foley's Blog... One of her recent columns was entitled "One Year Later: Where are the Killer Vista Apps". I was flabbergasted when I read the column because I knew that adoption was going well and going big time.. I am very close to the WPF community so I didn't want to respond and say "What are you thinking?". It is possible that she just really hasn't seen any, but I am here to tell you they are hitting big time, but it's not always the consumer sector where Vista is showing off it's power it's in the enterprise.. It's really a quiet revolution that's going on, and not seeable in the usual places..
A really great example is a new application designed and developed by Frog Design called "Lawson Smart Client". Lawson Software based in the US, is a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company that helps companies to more effectively manage their business through the application of their solutions. They worked with Frog Design to come up with a great interface to their software..
If you want to read about this application check out Long Zheng's Blog he has a great write-up of exactly what they worked on and a very nice overview of the design and process. I guess Long isn't as concerned about low WPF performance anymore from the write-up he has given as quoted in Mary's blog.
There is even more in-depth including a demo at Frog's Case Study Site..
Between this and the WPF Enterprise Application Contest going on, we should be seeing some really cool and very definitive Vista applications and some very convincing reasons why Vista makes a great enterprise desktop..
1 comment:
Thanks for the clarification Long! Would love to see you write something on optimization in your blog if you have some ideas how to do this with WPF...
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