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From: Giovanni Dicanio on 26 Feb 2010 04:32 "James Juno" <juno(a)noplace.fake> ha scritto nel messaggio news:BuSdne_QydDySxvWnZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d(a)scnresearch.com... > Your post hits the nail on the head. I've been fanatical about UI > responsiveness for many years, I do like UI responsiveness as well. > It's one of the reasons I quickly dismissed .NET for any serious UI work > (this was several years ago -- I have no idea how well the managed > paradigm performs now nor do I care -- I'm an old codger locked in his > ways). Just the startup time for even the simplest of the .NET samples > was horrible. VS2010 editor was completely rewritten using WPF, which is a .NET technology. In the publicly downloadable RC, I find it responsive. Giovanni
From: Ajay Kalra on 26 Feb 2010 08:27 On Feb 26, 4:32 am, "Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdica...(a)REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote: > VS2010 editor was completely rewritten using WPF, Great. Thats a big endorsement for WPF. -- Ajay
From: Ajay Kalra on 26 Feb 2010 08:42 On Feb 25, 2:58 pm, "James Juno" <j...(a)noplace.fake> wrote: > Your post hits the nail on the head. I've been fanatical about UI > responsiveness for many years, through several companies and now in my own > shop. It's one of the reasons I quickly dismissed .NET for any serious UI > work (this was several years ago -- I have no idea how well the managed > paradigm performs now nor do I care -- I'm an old codger locked in his > ways). Just the startup time for even the simplest of the .NET samples was > horrible. I remember colleagues being delighted with the new language and > "my god the programming tools are manna from heaven," but I held steadfast > to my belief that none of that matters one wit to the user who, whether he > knows it or not, expects things to get done RIGHT NOW, from program start-up > to its use to its shutdown. I won't bother expressing my feelings toward > these so-called browser-based apps. I used MFC for 10 years and have been using C#/.Net for over 4 years. Startup time is probably an issue(not if you use NGEN) but thats no reason to dismiss it. .Net is significantly ahead of older technologies. Our apps are trading apps in real world where performance is of extreme importance and it works fine. -- Ajay
From: David Lowndes on 26 Feb 2010 08:49 >> VS2010 editor was completely rewritten using WPF, > >Great. Thats a big endorsement for WPF. But not for the bugs they've (re)introduced into the editor functionality ;) Dave
From: Ajay Kalra on 26 Feb 2010 09:05
On Feb 26, 8:49 am, David Lowndes <Dav...(a)example.invalid> wrote: > >> VS2010 editor was completely rewritten using WPF, > > >Great. Thats a big endorsement for WPF. > > But not for the bugs they've (re)introduced into the editor > functionality ;) Cant blame lack of proper QA for technology. Oddly enough WPF was something I didnt want to go as I thought (still think) that its not mature enough. But now I will reconsider it and at the very least take a look. -- Ajay |