What plans do you have for support for WPF/Silverlight

Hi Kiran;



If you do some search, you'll see some reference for the support of WPF and LINQ. But based on the current version of SF, you can see it's up to date with current version VS2005 and .Net and ADO.Net. So, I feel confident future versions of SF will follow the same route. Hope that helps!

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Hi Ben

Thank you for taking the time to reply but what I essentially wanted to find out was plans for support for WPF (as opposed to the current support for Winows Forms out of the box).  .Net 3.0 has WPF right now so wanted to find out what's in store for future SF & when

Hi;



In a recent question [url=http://forum.strataframe.net/Topic9933-10-1.aspx][/url] one of the SF team (Ben Chase), addressed one of the current problem with WPF is that, there is no "Design time" support within VS2008, so until that is in place, other vendors like SF can't do much with it. But SF team will also share their thoughts with you.

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Sorry, the link didn't come out linkable, perhaps you cut & paste the URL, you'll get to the link!

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Ben Hayat is right on the money with his answers.  Silverlight is a nice product, but it is a good ways out of being a platform for which applications can be developed...without a lot of work anyway.  We have plans to support WPF, Silverlight, and LINQ.  But all of these products are in beta states.  The WPF that is supported in 3.0 is not the "full-enchilda" so to speak.  There is no design-time interface so it is all XAML.  Creating an engine to work around the Visual Studio designers would be an effort in fultility because by the time we have a working engine that essentially replaces the VS design-time the 3.5 release would be out.  Though there are many neat things that WPF beings to the table, and all features we are excited to implement in the framework, doing so at present would be premature and present more problems than solutions to our users.  As for our long term plans, yes, we absolutely plan to have WPF, LINQ, and Silverlight support with our framework and provide native support.

Thank you for your replies.  Just heard that VS2008 launches on Feb 27, 2008