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    <p>An analogy for your coworkers:</p> <p>Which is better, the automobile or the horse and buggy?</p> <ol> <li><p>Automobiles are not as mature a technology as the horse and buggy. Horse and buggy has been around over 2000 years, automobiles less than 200.</p></li> <li><p>Automobiles are overly engineered and extremely complex. Horse and buggy is simple.</p></li> <li><p>People in many parts of the world don't know how to drive an automobile but have good skills with the horse and buggy.</p></li> </ol> <p>Question: Can we simplify our automobiles so they are controlled by reins, eat hay, and be repaired by veterinarians and carriage-makers?</p> <p>My point here is that WPF is a very mature technology by now, much more powerful and easy to use than WinForms, and isn't at all difficult to learn. It should be the vehicle of choice except for "country drives" and other specialized purposes.</p> <p>I agree with the others that it is trivial to use WPF in a WinForms-like manner so there need be no significant learning curve if you want to use it that way, but it is wasteful not to take advantage of the new paradigms.</p> <p>I disagree that you should delay implementing WPF in your main application. It's very easy and painless to mix WinForms and WPF content in a single application. I recommend building new pieces in WPF and leaving old pieces in WinForms until there is a need to touch something. Even if your existing application is native C++, it is still easy to use WPF with it as long as the data is easily accessible from managed code.</p>
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    1. COLast week I added a super simple dialog. "Had" to do it in WinForms because we've got a bunch of integration stuff (fonts, persistence, help) in WinForms. Engineers (including me) always want to "re-write and do it better", but there's little business case for throwing away working code.
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    2. COAnd what would you have done in 1900 with $500 to spend on transportation? Buy this new horseless carriage thingy that is noisy, complex, a breaks down all the time? Or get another horse and some hay? Especially since you already have a saddle, stable, and a blacksmith down the road; and everyone else in town rides horses.
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    3. COIn 1900, cars was quite primitive. WPF is a very mature technology, comparable to the cars of today. What you are missing is infrastructure in your locality. A much better comparison would be deciding whether to buy a car or a horse-and-buggy today in a third world country. Of course the few weeks it takes to build a WPF infrastructure is far, far cheaper than the gas stations, auto repair shops, etc, that would be needed to make cars convenient to use in a remote village in Bangladesh. It is hard to know what to do with your saddle and your leftover hay, though. :-)
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