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After having a good read of the Family.Show reference application I've been blown away with the power of data binding. I think that with all the hype over how easy it is to now create fancy UI's, WPF may be overlooked for general business development, when in fact its perfect for your average business process application.  Of course that's not to say that these applications couldn't use an interaction specialist to help improve the users productivity, until business catch on that WPF has a slightly different development model (one with more focus on usability) it might be hard to justify the extra cost initially.

I've also just read Paul Stovell's data binding example based on winforms technology, it's not be as widely written about, but it seems that some pretty powerful data binding features exist in winforms today, it's just a matter of getting into the mind set. Its pretty cool how WPF databinding is introducing some new concepts to old technology.

I've spent some time looking at the Vertigo WPF reference application Family.Show. It's a really cool application, while I was playing around with it Rebecca saw it and immediately wanted it installed on her computer, she's been busy entering data into it. I hope an open source community forms around it.

The most interesting thing I found was a presentation by Scott Stanfield at Mix 07, he describes some of the lessons learnt from building this application. From the sounds of it the problem domain caused the bulk of the problems. It's certainly a testament to the design of the WPF that guys who have never used it before can produce something so stunning and the code is very nicely laid out.

Its about time I installed some new blogging software.

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