Hello,

My trial period has expired but I am glad to see that I can still post a question.  I have read here before that plans for version 2 should be around mid year and that you have plans to support Silverlight and WPF.

I am also evaluating DevForce and have been very impressed with their support for SL & WPF.  As a matter of fact, Winforms and Webforms seem to have been pushed back and most everything in their product is now pointing in this new direction.

Now to my questions.

1.  I was wondering if someone could expand on exactly what your plans are around SL & WPF?  I am not pushing the schedule issue because I know how that works and besides, by the time I can be up to speed on your product, June should be here!  I am interested in how you plan to tie them into your products and how this will affect the way StrataFrame is used.

2.  I also have been wondering about the role of Enterprise Server.  It seems to me (with my limited knowledge) that using ES with Silverlight would be the way to go.  Would this be considered a Best Practise?

Overall I am very impressed with Strataframe and it seems to fit my programming style very well.  I love the Database deployment utility and can't imagine deploying an app without the benefit of the security roles module.  I just am concerned about making the right choice as relates to the newer technology.

Thanks,
Bill Mason

Basically we are looking into MVVC pattern now. If SF can support and auto "move" us to this model/pattern with minimal changes, this would be great. It would dramatically enhance our architecture.

The Microfour team is a collection of some of the brightest guys I know, but I think it is unrealistic to think they are going to be able to move you "with minimum changes" from a winforms - BO based on datasets design to WPF - MVVM - Entity Framework.  

Just reading all the stuff out there now since MS announced plans for Win 8 and tablets etc.... lots of people suggesting that Microsoft will not really be 'enhancing' Silverlight or WPF or even Dot Net ?, and that most development in the future is going to go the way of HTML5 ...Wondering how all this will affect Strataframe