Z425

I've had over a month working with WPF and I am quite happy with it. I do spend a lot of time fiddling with it, but it seems to do what it's supposed to do once you know how to kick it right. My project at work with it is working out very slick and I'm happy with where it is at and with where it is going. WPF really needs some better Direct3D interop, but other than that my complaints are minimal.

Silverlight is not looking too hot at this point. The reason is that they subset it just way too damn much. It comes with pretty much nothing meaning you have to implement everything. This is just lame. I don't want to rewrite stupid ass basic controls. I've written too many and I really don't enjoy it anymore. I guess they are trying to keep it super lightweight, but that is just stupid in this day and age. They don't have to compete against Flash, they can just kick it's ass outright. Too bad they don't. Maybe it's an anti-trust bullshit issue. Maybe they'll add more goodies in the future. At the very least it would be nice to give developers the option to require a full .NET installation for their web apps.