Hello there,

I am soon wanting to start a LLBLGEN and WPF based application. I was wondering if there is likely to be any boilerplated/sample architecture released with WPF bindings?

I can work these things out, but if there is any available I would eagerly base my code on that instead.

Thank you John Sheppard

Hi John

Sorry - due to the young(ish) age of WPF we have not yet had a chance to put together a sample application using it.

If you do go ahead we will be happy to answer any more specific questions you may have.

Matt

I think that's a real missed opportunity.

A sample project would give the new users of LLBL a productivity boost, and I don't think it has to take a lot of time to create such a project.

And the argument that WPF is young(ish) is crap imo, it's there for more than 3 years!

Jowen wrote:

I think that's a real missed opportunity.

A sample project would give the new users of LLBL a productivity boost, and I don't think it has to take a lot of time to create such a project.

The scope of our library ends where the UI begins. So although you might like to see a wpf sample, it shouldn't matter, as binding a property is binding a property, a WPF using developer should know that before looking at whatever sample we provide. Our samples should describe how to utilize the entity model in code, which is UI independent. We added databinding logic to make it easier for people to bind the collections etc. to controls, however for WPF that's no different: if you bind the collection to a WPF grid, it will work the same as when you bind it to a winforms grid. Specific wpf binding doesn't require extra code on our part, so you can just bind the properties etc. in wpf as you would otherwise do. An example of ours shouldn't teach a developer how to do that, IMHO.

And the argument that WPF is young(ish) is crap imo, it's there for more than 3 years!

WPF is a very new technology when you consider it still gives blurry texts, unless you're using .NET 4 which hasn't been released yet.