Ignite

Today we watched some presentations from Microsoft on Windows Presentation Foundation, while it was nice to see some of the technology and how it can be used, theres no way this was presented anywhere near as good as it could have been. After seeing Java demos from people like Romain and other java people, it’s a bit hard to stomach a technology presentation where the person giving the presentation is setting the background of their buttons to a full bodied red and the background of their panels to gradients of Red to Green.

If Microsoft are trying to get us to go Wow at what they’re doing, they’re definitely going the wrong way about it. How about showing me some real world use cases? Instead of useless applications that look like I just threw up McDonalds after a night of heavy drinking. Hey Microsoft, i’m not going WOW yet, as much as i like the idea of being able to pass my UI design off to a designer and having him send me back XAML i can integrate into my project, you’re just not showing me how great it really can be.

One of the guys at work has been doing some XAML UI design for a client and i’m aware of how good it can be and how great the use cases are, but they need to show people this. Theres 29 people in the live meeting training session i’m in all getting a very poor impression of WPF.