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I am choosing between using WPF or Windows Forms for my application UI. We use Visual Studio 2008, and not the latest 2010.
To those who have created WPF apps in VS2008/2010: Is the designer mature enough in VS2008 to create a WPF app? Or should I stick with Windows Forms?
Thanks.
I’ve created a couple of good-sized applications using WPF and VS 2008. The designer is OK–what I found is that I ended up directly editing the XAML by hand. So the designer became more of a “print preview” for what I typed rather than a tool I used to create the markup.
For any non-trivial UI things (animations’ being a prime example), I would encourage you to take a look at Expression Blend. Once you get past the “graphics designer-y” interface, it provides a much nicer way to specify animations.
VS 2010/.NET 4 provide some nice improvements, but you should certainly be able to accomplish what you’re looking for in VS 2008.