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POWPF - Why doesn't Microsoft supply a decent set of most-used controls ?
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    copied!<p>I've been playing with WPF for some months now, and I quite like it. But one of the things I don't get is why MS doesn't put a little more effort in helping developers by supplying basic controls, and I need to get this off my chest :)</p> <p>For example, I figure most applications somewhere will need to let you edit some properties - for configuration or whatever. What would be the most used types in a proprety-grid editor ?</p> <ul> <li>text</li> <li>numbers (byte, float/double, int, etc)</li> <li>colors</li> </ul> <p>....etc.</p> <p>So why isn't there even something as simple as a control to edit numbers ? Like a generic NumericUpDown control that allows you to type in numbers (no text, no pasting invalid input) or spin them up/down according to some given rules (decimal, floating point, min/maxvalue) ? Why isn't there a generic colorpicker, so people get the same user-experience in every application ? Why isn't there a standard implementation of a SearchTextBox, a BreadCrumb-control, or all these other standard control types users have gotten accustomed to the last 10 years ?</p> <p>(..but at least they DID have the time to implement <em>a generic splashscreen</em> - because everyone knows that <em>greatly</em> increases user-productivity....)</p> <p>The well-known ideal is always to give people the same user-experience over different applications. So even if some of those controls would be easy to make - it would be preferred to have one version over different applications.</p> <p>I see people all over the internet trying to do the same stuff over and over again. Okay, so MS started a WPF Toolkit project on Codeplex that tries to implement some controls, but only did so half-heartedly and is completely dead by now (last update of the roadmap dates back to Mar 21 2009).</p> <p>The result of this is that a lot of people starting a WPF-project end up spending a lot of time on trying to figure out how to create some generic controls and get really frustrated.</p> <p>Wasn't the mantra "Developers, developers, developers!" ..?</p> <p>/Rant</p>
 

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