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POIs WPF development faster or slower than classic ASP.NET (web forms)
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copied!<p>Are you experienced with both ASP.NET and WPF coding? If so, I'll be grateful if you'll share your experience, please.</p> <p>We are estimating a 100-screen WPF project. Our estimation methodology involves characterizing the complexity of each screen. We then apply a standard number for the development time, based on the complexity and the technology. The standard number is based on the developer being <em>good</em>, not a super-star.</p> <p>For example, here's a screen:</p> <blockquote> <p>The user selects a row in the master grid, then edits the data in the detail and saves the changes. Ajax is used to populate and save the detail without a postback. The data layer is already there, and styling will be handled by someone else. The task includes writing an appropriate suite of unit tests; integration testing is separate.</p> </blockquote> <p>We would characterize this screen as <em>medium</em> and allocate <em>X hours</em> for the task, for classic ASP.NET (as opposed to MVC).</p> <p>We need help figuring out what <em>X</em> should be for WPF. </p> <p><strong>My question:</strong> </p> <p>If the screen was being created in WPF, by someone <em>good</em> at WPF -- would it take X hours, or .7 X, or 1.3 X? What is the relative productivity of WPF vs classic ASP.NET?</p> <p>Asking another way: If a task takes (picking a number) 10 hours of ASP.NET coding, how many hours would it take to do it with WPF? 5? 15?</p> <p>We'd like to know if WPF is (picking a number) 50% more productive than ASP.NET, so we can propose a lower price and be confident that we will be able to do the project within budget. </p> <p>[Edit] Asking yet another way: This discussion <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4207525/asp-net-or-wpf-c">ASP.Net or WPF (C#)?</a> has a bunch of responses. The selected "correct" answer is "Reasons to choose WPF" and the first reason is "Much faster and easier development than ASP.NET and jQuery".</p> <p>Is that answer true? How <em>much</em> faster?</p>

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