Trying to make it more than a demo...
Got a bit of determination now for no apparent reason. The more I look at the old software, the more I'm motivated to get something good and functional in Silverlight. I hated Silverlight a month ago and now I see ways I can use it to make things better in just about every single screen. It is quite maddening actually :)
To sum up the biggest reasons, it is better eye-candy and if I ever strike it out on my own, web applications are a better demo platform. The possibility of streaming an application from my home server to anywhere is exciting. And even more show off potential, will be once Silverlight enabled handheld devices (phones, etc...) get more popular in the market I will be able to develop mobile versions for those!
So, I refactored everything so that there are no more relationships in the mappings to take the easy way out for avoiding the lazy loading issue. I didn't like any solution out there. I may need to develop my own framework in the future. Also, I have figured out the bulk of my communication problems and I have finally gotten past just having a single login screen. Working now on converting the monolithic order entry screen that looks like the screen below converted into XAML... visually it won't look the same and there is a LOT of logic behind that little screen so I anticipate that once this screen is fully functional I'll be about 80% done:
To sum up the biggest reasons, it is better eye-candy and if I ever strike it out on my own, web applications are a better demo platform. The possibility of streaming an application from my home server to anywhere is exciting. And even more show off potential, will be once Silverlight enabled handheld devices (phones, etc...) get more popular in the market I will be able to develop mobile versions for those!
So, I refactored everything so that there are no more relationships in the mappings to take the easy way out for avoiding the lazy loading issue. I didn't like any solution out there. I may need to develop my own framework in the future. Also, I have figured out the bulk of my communication problems and I have finally gotten past just having a single login screen. Working now on converting the monolithic order entry screen that looks like the screen below converted into XAML... visually it won't look the same and there is a LOT of logic behind that little screen so I anticipate that once this screen is fully functional I'll be about 80% done:
New version is only up to this point :(
Colour scheme is still experimental. But has a nice look and feel to it.
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