I don't really know if this is appropriate, but people often post job ads. I've nothing to do with this job, a recruiter contacted me asking if I knew any experienced UI designers to do a contract job in Brisbane using WinForms.

I'm not a .NET programmer and don't know any personally, but if anyone wants me to pass on their details to the recruiter, let me know.

I happen to be a .NET programmer in brisbane who is moderately experienced in UI work and may be looking for contract work in the upcoming weeks.

Edit: But I'd need more details if possible.

I tried to send you a PM but the buttons on the form don't work :/

Sif Winforms, WPF is where its at

Sif Winforms, WPF is where its at

Except for text.

Haven't looked at the alleged improvements in 4.0 tho.

I want to like WPF, but I think I just need a reasonably sized project to really get comfortable with it.

Sif Winforms, WPF is where its at

Except for text.

Haven't looked at the alleged improvements in 4.0 tho.

WPF's not too bad apparently, Silverlight text looks like ass.
Ditto about the 4.0 release though. Microsoft fix your s*** up!

WPF text is eww. I reckon the premade controls are even yuck.

Apparently they did a bunch of work on WPF because visual studio 2010 was done in WPF, and it needed a fair few changes before it was suitable (ie the text rendering).

Yeah VS 2010 is ok. I just think the styling of the UI elements in WPF feel a little unpolished and a bit too "vectory" and cheap.

Sif Winforms, WPF is where its at

You used to be cool and all C++ man...

;)

After getting used to C# .NET and the pwnage that is C# Intellisense, C++ is god awful to program in. Just awful. I used to love coding in C++.

i hate the x on the tabs in vs2010. thats all.

You used to be cool and all C++ man...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, nobody wants to hire C++ programmers anymore these days :(

I've been using WCF and LINQ and WPF lately though, and I will admit, they're pretty damn awesome, they take a lot of pain out of things which would otherwise be painful to do. I still only use C# though, f*** VB.NET, I don't care if they compile down to the same language, I have principles.

You used to be cool and all C++ man...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, nobody wants to hire C++ programmers anymore these days :(

I've been using WCF and LINQ and WPF lately though, and I will admit, they're pretty damn awesome, they take a lot of pain out of things which would otherwise be painful to do. I still only use C# though, f*** VB.NET, I don't care if they compile down to the same language, I have principles.

Amen to all of this.
Plus these days when there's a bug in the program, instead of crashing on a null pointer or corrupting memory I just hook the global application exception handler, pop up a happy error box and blame the user. Bonus!

Or better yet, send an email to the devs automagically with all the Exception details and stack trace.

Nothing worse than "What did the error say?" "Ohhh I... closed it." "[sigh]..."

Yeah VS 2010 is ok. I just think the styling of the UI elements in WPF feel a little unpolished and a bit too "vectory" and cheap.

We use a commercial control library for this reason.

I just go with Forms cause we only have .NET 2.0 on these machines (Telstra) and use LINQBridge for LINQ goodness.

WinForms UI design? Jus follow the Microsoft recommendations :p