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Feedback on Windows Presentation Framework - tuesday march 14th
Posted: 15 Mar 06 9:48 AM (Canada) |
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Hi,
This event was the first from Ottawa .Net community that I attended. I am not a .net developer (yet :) but have been following, reading about it, dabbling with it once in a while at home etc from the last few years. I just wanted to say that I appreciated the presentation but was left with a feeling that it wasn't detailed enough (too high-level). I don't know much about Windows Presentation Foundation, so maybe that's it, and there isn't more...? here are a few thoughts.
I don't have much to compare it with but I will certainly be interested
in attending more presentations/events organized here.
The presenter, Christian Beauclair, last night, was interesting and presented very well. He kept the presentation lively and, even with my short attention span, kept me listening until the end. The rate of delivery and the organization of it was very good.
About the presentation. My first thoughts were that we could have skipped the Microsoft User Experience guidelines part (from Vista) , or maybe made it a bit shorter. A mention of it, maybe a few examples, but it wasn't really for me. Of course, every person present had probably different expectations and backgrounds, and it may have been useful/interesting to others.
Also, I did not really know what to expect from this. I have read very little about the Windows Presentation Foundation itself, neither recently nor when it was known as Avalon. But, for some reason, I expected a little bit more depth, more technical details to this presentation. Most of the stuff about Vista could have been skipped (though some people in the audience did start asking questions about it, I felt it might have been slightly off-topic).
In my opinion, most of the things shown about Vista could easily have been gotten from the various content out there on the internet, or a separate presentation/workshop. The fact that you can browse through your windows sideways (3d), that you can see the page preview from hovering over windows in the task bar, and others, were all things that are very much discussed/written about and could have been skipped over maybe.
Just a thought. Maybe the presentations description should have some kind of indication of the level of content. Similar to MSDN level-rating (but maybe not using meaningless numbers like level 200 :)).
If the presentation's summary, online, had been a little bit more detailed, saying something like a "high-level intro to the Presentation framework" , "first glance - demo building an application" , "with a few sample demos of Vista's new functionality"... I am not a blurb writer, but maybe you can get a few ideas and do something with it :) I am not quite sure this has been a "fast ramp up " (quote from event description: "If you want to ramp up fast on Windows Presentation Foundation, this session is for you.")
All in all, maybe a good intro, but it leaves me wondering : is that it? or is there much more we haven't seen in this particular presentation?
A few random thoughts about the topic (not the presentation) : I just wanted to share impressions, I am not wanting to sound like I am whining, or bashing anyone or anything. I realize I do not have all the information just yet.
I thought Microsoft was pushing for a single, consolidated, all-in-one IDE -- and I am not saying I agree with that ---. Yet, last night, the constant moving between Visual Studio and the Interactive Designer made me a bit weary/wary (?). I know it is just a beta, I honestly don't have an idea of what the direction of these products is, but it did seem a bit odd.
I will have to look into this XAML thing, it rather looked like (don't trust your first impressions?) HTML writing 10 years ago when people started mass-creating websites, mixed with a bit of CSS styling (verbose and with Microsoft's proprietary way of doing things).
Add some feelings of XUL and, like someone commented during the presentation, macromedia-like feel from their toolset...
Also,just a last thought, I still am not sure if WPF is what is going to replace (?) windows forms/web forms, or just be an alternative, extension, used in "multimedia/fancy animation/mostly eyecandy" type applications. What does it mean for enterprise, business apps, where does it belong in the future, and what will it hook into... basically, I am not sure of where it fits, of the context in which it will be used. Maybe I will look more into it...
Sorry if this post is a bit long, I didn't realize how long ! I am not used to posting feedback/reviews :)
Thanks,
Julie
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