by Dave Garbacz
16. October 2010 01:06
So many platforms and so much to learn! I've transitioned somewhat away from Sharepoint at the moment and made my way back to something a little more familiar to me. Well not entirely.
I've been working on a WPF application that will be used at the reception desk at the front of the building that will allow people to check in and out. The icing on the cake is that the application will be driven by a touch screen to allow for quick interaction. The typical user interaction with an application can vary greatly in comparison to a web page. It's been an interesting look not only at the user experience for standalone apps but at WPF itself. Sometimes it seemed like some tasks were so much more complicated than they needed to be that left me furiously searching Google and muttering to myself 'why on earth would you do it like that'. Coming from a generally more web-based background, it's been a bit of a challenge moving away from the web and working with a standalone app. There is a complimentary web application that will work closely with the desktop app and both pieces are moving further and further towards completion.
As of right now there is another upcoming project that will be using DotNetNuke so I'm starting to work my way through learning that. It's a pretty robust platform and I'm interested to see what other things it's capable of in the upcoming days.