windowsforms or WPF?

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WPF is released, Orcas (VS 2008) is coming. Although Windows Forms will be
supported for long time, is it a better choice to turn to WPF now?
 
Hi Allen,

Windows Forms will coexist with WPF as there are things WPF can't do (like MDI) or not particularly suited to do. Maybe in the long run we will learn to do without MDI, or decent MDI managers will be created for WPF. Considering WPF is still pretty new to the public I'd say Windows Forms is still valid for many years to come.
 
Allen said:
WPF is released, Orcas (VS 2008) is coming. Although Windows Forms will be
supported for long time, is it a better choice to turn to WPF now?
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IIRC some of the WPF controls are not yet as feature complete as their
Windows Forms counterparts are. Thus I'd base the decision on the exact
scenario. For example, I would not use WPF for simple data-entry forms used
in the back office somewhere, but I'd maybe use it when developing rich
applications for "normal" customers.

In addition, note that you can use Windows Forms controls inside WPF forms
(with all advantages and disadvantages of this mix), which may ease
migration from Windows Forms to WPF.
 
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