Rob Relyea - XAMLified

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:18 PM

hello Rob,

What about re-writing mine ?

I got some performance issue and a very long todo list ;)

mycollections.codeplex.com

Thanks for your blog

Jeff

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:59 PM

Perhaps I'm a little biased, but you should show some of the advanced multi-touch NUI applications created in WPF for Surface and Win7.

One example is NaturalShow, an application I created for my MIX10 presentation to replace PowerPoint:

live.visitmix.com/.../EX18

I also have some other apps and videos I could share if you contact me off-line. joshblake at gmail com.

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:09 AM

Hey Rob,

Back when WPF was still Avalon, I remember a C9 video where Adam Nathan converted the Win32 Hearts game into a WPF app. I think being able to both show the ability to migrate legacy code, and giving a contrast in the experiences of WPF vs Win32 or something else, makes for a very compelling selling point.

Kind of a before and after take of an application. Heck, even VS2008 vs VS2010 would work well. I found their series of blog posts very compelling, that such a large scale app could be rewritten partly in WPF.

Then of course you have apps like MetroTwit, Blu, I found the SL Facebook app to be nice, just stuff like that.

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:18 AM

Hi Rob,

I would show my home-made site: http://vivamind.net. Yes, I know it's little too selfish, PRing my own work here (blush). But I truly believe in importance and usefulness of this project :).

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:26 AM

I would show a few WPF apps running on WEC7 to show how lightweight/portable it is. After all, no point in running something intended for cross browser destined for an embedded OS.

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:16 AM

Hi Rob,

My BizSpark startup has developed a engineering line of business XBAP for plant design. It uses diagramming, 3D models, XPS, web communication, styles, etc. Users love the user interface improvement made possible by WPF over other technical software currently on the market. I would like to port this to Silverlight once the 3D engines for Silverlight are more mature.

http://bit.ly/9d5fdF

Adnan

ConcepSys Solutions

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# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Monday, July 19, 2010 3:17 PM

I would show JMP 9 (http://www.jmp.com) when it ships this fall.  This is an app that has been shipping for 16 years as an MFC app which has now been converted into a WPF app.  What's interesting about it is not that it uses a bunch of whiz-bang WPF features, but rather that is a mixed mode application with 80+% native code and a WPF UI implemented almost entirely in C++/CLI.  Another interesting thing is that other than the UI, all of the graphics are still GDI/GDI+ hosted in WriteableBitmaps, *not* WPF graphics, and the reasons behind that.

I am a JMP developer, so I might be biased.

Eric

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:12 PM

I think Pivot makes a compelling case for Silverlight.

# re: If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?@ Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:40 PM

If the team is more visually oriented rather than LOB aligned team, you could talk to them about the WPF Application running in the Microsoft Company Store in building 92. We built a fun data visualization app called the Cashier Experience which pulls data from RSS feeds and a local SQL database and displays it using WPF across 4 large screens.

If you're not familiar with it, head over to building 92 and check it out.