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WPF & Prism: Before & After

Glenn posted the before/after pictures of the Prism Reference Implementation application.

I was very impressed when I saw how they got from the traditional developer styled UI:

StockTrader_Before.png

To this UI:

StockTrader_After.png

Something else that Glenn said couldn't be stressed enough, this metamorphosis has happened in two weeks by a single developer.

I have worked on skinnable (win forms) applications, and that kind of thing just doesn't take just two man weeks, if it is possible at all.

Wow!

This make the WPF story much more compelling.

Comments

Steve
05/10/2008 02:43 PM by
Steve

Take a look at Caliburn:

http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2008/01/07/introducing-caliburn-an-mvc-mvp-wpf-framework.aspx

Caliburn and Prism:

http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2008/04/28/caliburn-and-prism.aspx

Caliburn and DI support - Castle Windsor, etc.., NHibernate:

http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2008/04/19/caliburn-beta-1-is-here.aspx

All that is wow to me ;)

Jim
05/11/2008 04:24 PM by
Jim

Two weeks? That's a pretty long time. In Flex/AIR you can completely change the appearance using just CSS (similar to how it can be used to completely change webpages) and if you combine it with Flash you can come up with slick animated GUIs (that are also cross-platform).

efdee
05/13/2008 11:08 AM by
efdee

I'm still trying to figure out if this post is sarcastic or not...

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