Last night's VTdotNET meeting with Nick Petterssen of Electric Rain talking about the product design and development around StandOut which is written with WPF was really fun. It was very inspiring to see what can be accomplished with WPF in a full product, not just bits and pieces of code samples. There are so many innovations in StandOut also. Not to mention the year that Nick spent researching what makes a presentation great and what presenter needs to help him or her be great. As a developer this was already interesting. But as someone who presents a lot, I was equally interested in the product and some of the tidbits Nick shared.
Here are links to some things that came up in the various discussions.
The DNRTV episode where Billy Hollis demos a Line of Business application using WPF. We had a long talk about WPF and business applications vs. the types of WPF applications we normally see. What Billy's team is doing with WPF really does much more than make the data entry application shiny.
VBMigration Partner from Francesco Balena's company , CodeArchitects. This was not related to the presentation, but another conversation.
Congrats to the winners of the Infragistics and Resharper licenses (thanks to Infra & JetBrains for the monthly donations) and lots of great books and even some t-shirts. :-)
Next month's meeting is Sept 8th with Mark Merchant from Microsoft on Programming with Virtual Earth.
