Re: .NET 3.0

John,

In comparison, how many end user applications need to expose form
designing capabilities (whether WPF or Winforms)?

Just about all of them, it seems to me. People have been producing
applications that allowed end users to design forms and customize the
data for them for at least 20 years.

i fail to see how you get from "people have been doing it" to "just about all of them". For instance, i cannot think of a single (non development-ide) application that i personally am using that provides a form designer (or would have any need for one).

Considering that "just about all" applications *need* a form designer, according to you, i must be using only extremely rare corner case applications (such as web browsers, news readers, a wide range of imaging applications, file managers, word processing applications, email applications, instant messaging, ftp clients, media players, etc etc)...

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marc hoffman
Chief Architect
RemObjects Software
http://www.remobjects.com
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