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by tonyedgecombe 3236 days ago
WPF/XAML can give you amazing results but I'm nowhere near as productive with it as I was with VB6.
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int_19h 3236 days ago
I would venture that WinForms is actually more RAD'ish than WPF.

A lot of that productivity came from the drag-and-drop form editing. And what made it possible (and easy) was complete disregard for any kind of advanced dynamic layouts. Delphi's VCL, .NET's WinForms and the nameless VB6 UI toolkit are all designed around the notion of widgets manually placed on a 2D grid, and the most that you can get in terms of dynamic resizing is "anchoring" their corners to containers.

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pjmlp 3236 days ago
While true, WPF development when coupled with Blend design can be very expressive.

The main hurdle is getting how templates, styles, triggers and code interact together.

If one happens to work in enterprise projects, it is quite easy to get WPF component libraries.

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