Greg,Have you looked at something like DXTreme from DevExpress? Might not be suitable for your existing applications - but I have been looking at it for some future work.Whether it works to a sufficient level or not is unclear, but I like the idea behind it.Agree with Ian around dumb-down
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
The former means that the apps will be crippled because HTML5 just can't
reproduce the rich UI of GDI/WPF or Silverlight,
Depends on the rendering engine. Throw this in Chrome:
http://www.htmlfivewow.com/slide1, my jaw dropped at
I think David is on the money Greg.
Have a look at
http://blog.xamarin.com/eight-reasons-c-sharp-is-the-best-language-for-mobile-development/
if
you're interested in Xamarin's view of the cross platform space and C# /
.NET's fit.
Brenden
On 4 January 2013 14:11, David Connors da...@connors.com
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:15 PM, BC brendencono...@gmail.com wrote:
I think David is on the money Greg.
Have a look at
http://blog.xamarin.com/eight-reasons-c-sharp-is-the-best-language-for-mobile-development/
if
you're interested in Xamarin's view of the cross platform space and C# /
I would love if MS bought Xamarin and created a first class .NET tool for
developing Mobile and cross platform apps. The only problem I can see is
that Apple and Google would try and block it.
Imagine where .NET would be today if MS had executed on cross platform the
way Xamarin do.
I'm not quite sure I follow Craig - what is missing from Xamarin's toolset
that MS may add? From my experience (admittedly not exhaustive), Xamarin
already have a first class toolkit for cross platform mobile and desktop
apps. Web's not quite where I'd like it to be, but with HTML5 / CSS3 etc
it's
Thank chaps, I've forwarded the bodies of your replies to my colleague.
Ian, I'm certainly aftraid that consumer demand for apps on mobile devices
will result in a dumb versions of sophisticatd applications and will
probably require developing parallel apps. I have some Windows WinForms and
WPF
I don't think you should try and port complex business applications to a
phone, but specific features suit a phone. For example I sell a Beauty
Salon specific Point of Sale SAAS package. Will I could never imagine
anyone trying to run their whole business from it, my users are crying out
for a
