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Great User Experience Example in a Business Application

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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Published 07 July 08 08:00 by BradA
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# a-foton » Great User Experience Example in a Business Application said on July 7, 2008 12:02 PM:

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# NC said on July 7, 2008 12:43 PM:

awsome application. Silverlight and WPF will provide great applications in a close future.

# Edddy said on July 7, 2008 3:07 PM:

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?

# vgopinath said on July 7, 2008 4:22 PM:

excellent, any way to release the source code, would be very useful.

# Shawn said on July 8, 2008 12:02 AM:

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.

# DotNetKicks.com said on July 8, 2008 6:58 AM:

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# pkellner said on July 8, 2008 10:45 AM:

is this in anyway related to the Composite Application guideance for WPF?  

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707819.aspx

# David Garcia said on July 8, 2008 2:16 PM:

No, this isn't related to the composite application guidance

# Nuno Filipe Godinho said on July 8, 2008 7:04 PM:

Normally Business Solutions tend to have a "grey" design and don't always have the best

# abc said on July 9, 2008 1:00 PM:

This entire app is written in VB right?

# Billy Hollis said on July 9, 2008 1:56 PM:

That's correct, abc. Not a curly brace in the whole thing.

# Jax said on July 10, 2008 3:55 AM:

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.

# rbfigueira said on July 10, 2008 11:18 AM:

Hi Jax,

You can find the Sticky sample here:

http://dotnetmasters.com/downloads/TechEd2008DemoCode.zip

# Mirrored Blogs said on July 12, 2008 12:30 PM:

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

# Rico Alexander said on July 12, 2008 4:48 PM:

Beautiful app.  Any chance we could get some hints on how the modal windows and dirty data was handled?

# Matt said on July 14, 2008 3:14 PM:

Any suggestions on how to start out learning WPF?  Books, training, etc.?

# Todd Haehn said on August 6, 2008 1:52 PM:

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.

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