WPF and LLBLGen at 10000 feet

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Jeff M
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# Posted on: 18-Apr-2008 17:33:21   

Hi all. Long time no post.

Some new project may lend themselves to WPF in VS2008. I'm spoiled because WinForms/WebForms work seamlessly and effortlessly with LLBLGen objects. The little that I've read seems to indicate that WPF and LLBLGen aren't quite compatible out-of-the-box.

Is anyone doing significant work with WPF using LLBLGen technology?

Frans: what can we expect in terms of future LLBLGen releases and WPF?

Thanks. Jeff

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# Posted on: 18-Apr-2008 17:35:46   

It should work OK, as WPF supports Winforms databinding. Where did you get the idea WPF doesn't work with LLBLGen Pro ?

Frans Bouma | Lead developer LLBLGen Pro
Jeff M
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# Posted on: 18-Apr-2008 18:09:39   

Otis wrote:

It should work OK, as WPF supports Winforms databinding. Where did you get the idea WPF doesn't work with LLBLGen Pro ?

Oh - I didn't mean to imply that WPF doesn't work with LLBLGen.

There just aren't too many posts on WPF on this forum. Many are rather old (pre-Orcas) and expressed some minor issues with LLBLGen:

http://www.llblgen.com/TinyForum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=10014&HighLight=1

http://www.llblgen.com/TinyForum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=12513&HighLight=1 (third-party component incompatibility).

Certainly, nothing that would deter developers from marrying WPF to LLBLGen. I'm interested in hearing developer experiences.

Jeff

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# Posted on: 19-Apr-2008 10:55:08   

simple_smile

Well, 'WPF' seems like a technology which isn't really adapted by developers. Partly I think because there wasn't really good design time support. In Java land, people often write their gui layouts in code, as their panel stuff is really powerful. With WPF you can do that too, but apparently people on .NET are locked into 'design time' simple_smile

I think it will change in the (near) future as more control vendors come with their WPF libraries. We've planned to build v3 with WPF, at least parts of it.

Frans Bouma | Lead developer LLBLGen Pro