Re: .NET 3.0

marc hoffman wrote:

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).

I can.

Considering that "just about all" applications need a form designer,

I guess it depends on what you think of as a form designer. I'm talking
about presentation of information, customization of that presentation,
adding additional attributes to it, and so on. WPF goes way beyond form
design.

according to you, i must be using only extremely rare corner case
applications (such as web browsers,

I'd like to customize how my bookmarks appear, and where. I guess
you've never use FireFox's web developer plug-in? That certainly
customizes the appearance of a web page I'm looking at.

news readers,

I'd like to be able to customize the highlighting and display logic for
newsgroup posts, being able to expand/collapse information that's
displayed in it, and have additional navigation.

a wide range of imaging applications,
file managers, word processing applications,
email applications, instant messaging, ftp clients, media players,
etc etc)...

Yes, almost all of those applications would greatly benefit from
allowing the user to customize their appearance, and add annotations
and custom treaments to the information presented in the application.

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