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Eddy Vluggen24-Jun-15 8:07

Eddy Vluggen

24-Jun-15 8:07

Basketcase Software wrote:
WPF has that nice "Device Independent Pixel" feature that WinForms lack

I never missed it, but it IS fun to read the history of scaling and how we try to negate different resolutions and dimensions.

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Marc Clifton22-Jun-15 9:28

Marc Clifton

22-Jun-15 9:28

Abhinav S wrote:
why would one switch to WinJS?

Windows Library for JavaScript

Yeah, exactly. Why???

Marc

User 483504722-Jun-15 9:39

User 4835047

22-Jun-15 9:39

I have the impression it is kind of a Microsoft Bootstrap.

Edit:
(There will be probably an API war again)

modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.

Pete O'Hanlon22-Jun-15 9:46

22-Jun-15 9:46

You're looking at it from the wrong angle. WinJS was never intended to pull people from the XAML stack; rather, it was introduced to try to persuade JavaScript/web developers to develop apps that would run on the confusingly named WinRT/Metro/insert name here platform. If you are a web developer, the theory is that it makes more sense for you to target WinJS than it does learning C#/XAML (for instance).

Abhinav S22-Jun-15 15:20

Abhinav S

22-Jun-15 15:20

Documentation on WinJS is limited and at first instance it seems rather cumbersome to use.
Imagine they have a namespace concept in JavaScript (sort of neither here nor there)!

Any experience working on WinJS?

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Pete O'Hanlon22-Jun-15 18:57

22-Jun-15 18:57

I did evaluate it when it first came out - there was nothing that would make me switch from XAML, but as I have been using XAML a long time, I'm not really part of the target profile.

Nathan Minier23-Jun-15 1:18

Nathan Minier

23-Jun-15 1:18

I've poked at it a little bit, and it seems more built to interact with a stack back end template than with a actual developer. Just the navigation model is oblique and, as mentioned previously, cumbersome. There's also the fact that several of the hooks in it are for Windows API and not for a browser, which makes its usefulness as web application UX component limited.

I can't recommend it.

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David Purkiss23-Jun-15 1:25

David Purkiss

23-Jun-15 1:25

I've looked into using WinJS as a control suite/UI framework for Web Apps, as the most recent version, 4.0, can be run straight out of the browser. In this regard, it looks like a very good competitor.

However, for writing Windows Store Apps, if targeting other platforms is not a concern then XAML wins. XAML/C# is far more elegant than HTML/JS.

As for WinForms, XAML was definitely a step in the right direction and then came along the whole web craze which kind of killed it. Web frameworks are only starting to catch up to the abilities of XAML (check out http://aurelia.io).

modified 23-Jun-15 7:58am.

Ravi Bhavnani22-Jun-15 5:43

Ravi Bhavnani

22-Jun-15 5:43

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P0mpeyBoy22-Jun-15 5:54

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22-Jun-15 5:54

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
BusterBoy

Is that a Marvel Superhero? I totally missed that one.

Ravi Bhavnani22-Jun-15 6:00

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22-Jun-15 6:00

He also goes by this[^] alternate persona.

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Chris Maunder22-Jun-15 16:50

Chris Maunder

22-Jun-15 16:50

You have a seriously good memory, Ravi.

Have a good one Nish!

cheers
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Dinesh.V.Kumar22-Jun-15 19:58

Dinesh.V.Kumar

22-Jun-15 19:58

Belated B'day wishes Nish!!! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Bassam Abdul-Baki23-Jun-15 10:14

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23-Jun-15 10:14

HBBD NN!

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Jeremy Falcon22-Jun-15 5:42

22-Jun-15 5:42

Anyone that knows me, may be aware that at times, I may or may not have a not-so-rational hot temper. I'd like to think it's because I am wise and mature and all-knowing, well beyond my years. YMMV Well, yesterday I got hot tempered again with one of my neighbors, and I'd like to see the collective opinion of you guys if y'all think it was justified or not.

I currently live in a town home, and my "backyard area" is shared among three units in particular. It's not a big enclosure, but you make do with what you have. Yesterday, the neighbor two units over (and sharing the backyard area) up and decided to put a huge-arse trampoline there that quite literally consumes just about all the available non-porch space in the backyard area for all three units.

I wasn't a fan of these people to start with, but after seeing that (and considering this guy didn't even bother to ask the other two of us if that was ok), I pretty much lost it and banged on his door and let him have it. Granted, there's not much I can do after venting that's legal. So, now I'm calling the housing association for the town homes and so forth to get this resolved.

So my question to CP is, considering the obvious disrespect for other people when taking up all their space without even asking, do y'all think I was out of line for banging on his door and letting him have it? I don't, but then again I'm not one known for keeping the peace.

Jeremy Falcon

P0mpeyBoy22-Jun-15 5:51

P0mpeyBoy

22-Jun-15 5:51

Depends. You've got a right to be peeved the bloke should have asked you.

But the fact it's a Trampoline suggests he probably has very small kids, like me. If you had come round my house banging on my door and shouting at me I would probably hit you (as long as your not big and muscly or anything).

If you knocked on my door politely and addressed your concerns to me politely, I would likely apologise profusely for not taking your needs into account and take it down immediately or come to an amicable arrangement in order to keep it up.

Pete O'Hanlon22-Jun-15 5:52

22-Jun-15 5:52

P0mpey3 wrote:
he probably has very small kids, like me

Are you saying you're a small kid?

Slacker00722-Jun-15 8:27

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22-Jun-15 8:27

I needed that. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Colin Mullikin22-Jun-15 8:32

Colin Mullikin

22-Jun-15 8:32

That's definitely how I read it. Laugh | :laugh:

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Jeremy Falcon22-Jun-15 5:55

22-Jun-15 5:55

P0mpey3 wrote:
But the fact it's a Trampoline suggests he probably has very small kids, like me. If you had come round my house banging on my door and shouting at me I would probably hit you (as long as your not big and muscly or anything).

You are correct with the assumption of him having kids. Although I didn't see any behind the door when I was around. I'm sure my voice may have carried, but I wouldn't deliberately do that in front of kids.

That being said, I still don't think I was in the wrong, having kids or not. I didn't yell in front of the kids or to his wife. It was man to man. He's an adult and he should act like one.

Jeremy Falcon

Ravi Bhavnani22-Jun-15 10:04

Ravi Bhavnani

22-Jun-15 10:04

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
He's an adult and he should act like one.

Ahem...

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Jeremy Falcon22-Jun-15 10:15

22-Jun-15 10:15

Touché!

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ZurdoDev22-Jun-15 7:12

ZurdoDev

22-Jun-15 7:12

P0mpey3 wrote:
If you knocked on my door politely and addressed your concerns to me politely, I would likely apologise profusely for not taking your needs into account and take it down immediately or come to an amicable arrangement in order to keep it up.

Exactly.

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Pete O'Hanlon22-Jun-15 5:51

22-Jun-15 5:51

Sounds like you were more restrained than I would have been.

Jeremy Falcon22-Jun-15 5:55