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Great User Experience Example in a Business Application

  • Artikkeli

DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight.  Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services.  So far the application is in WPF, but they are planning to create a Silverlight version as well.    Watch the web cast for a full demo.

A few things I thought was cool:

  1. They use visual clues effectively to direct the users attention (for example per-entity model pop-ups)
  2. They multiple-module editing model.  Many records can be edited at the same time.  There is great navigation and notification support to manage all of this.
  3. Dirty tracking seems nicely done.

 

Billy, we are all looking forward to playing with the real thing! 

Here are a few screen shots:

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2008
    PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/07/great-user-experience-example-in-a-business-application/

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2008
    awsome application. Silverlight and WPF will provide great applications in a close future.

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2008
    This is really a great example of a LOB app. Really nice how they handle multiple windows. Would be nice if they share a little more:

  • How the MDI is handled?

  • How about the reports section?

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2008
    excellent, any way to release the source code, would be very useful.

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2008
    Wow..that looks fantastic. Brad, We need more large example apps that show best practices. I'd love to know how they handled validation, MDI, modal dialogs etc. Would also be nice to see some tips on designing with silverlight in mind. I know Billy mentioned triggers...seems like that will be one of the bigger hurdles to overcome if they port this to sliverlight.

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2008
    You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2008
    is this in anyway related to the Composite Application guideance for WPF?   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707819.aspx

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2008
    No, this isn't related to the composite application guidance

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2008
    Normally Business Solutions tend to have a "grey" design and don't always have the best

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2008
    This entire app is written in VB right?

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2008
    That's correct, abc. Not a curly brace in the whole thing.

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2008
    Billy mentions the Sticky notes source is available on his site, but I can't seem to find it - anyone who has a link, please post.

  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2008
    Hi Jax, You can find the Sticky sample here: http://dotnetmasters.com/downloads/TechEd2008DemoCode.zip

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2008
    Post: Approved at: Jul-12-2008 John L. Scott Real Estate going Silverlight! The plan seems to be the

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2008
    Beautiful app.  Any chance we could get some hints on how the modal windows and dirty data was handled?

  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2008
    Any suggestions on how to start out learning WPF?  Books, training, etc.?

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2008
    I watched the video several times!! Can anyone tell me how the multiple pages are managed?  All the samples that I have seen with WPF have only one page.