posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 9:45 PM
by
Sean Gerety
WPF and Command Centers
WPF and Command Centers? Yes, WPF and Command Centers. What a great match. I got this idea when recently touring CheckFree and seeing their command center. (They had this really cool glass that you could change from opaque to clear with a remote. I don't know if that's the product that they used, but it's the same concept.) I've seen a couple of command centers and they all look like really big versions of what we see on small monitors. So you can image the text and image quality is pretty rough. With zooming and the new text technology you could create some really killer apps out there for these big screens. Plus, there is always a ton of data visualizations could take advantage of the power of data templates in WPF. And you can use the Nick Thuesen's RangeConverters post to learn how to hide bits when you're looking at your command center app's on a smaller screen.
Tags: WPF | XAML