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As part of the project i am working on I am looking to produce some software that works on a LCD display (think call center info boards) and displays various graphs (the bars grow etc in realtime, so incoming call stats etc etc) and flicks between various 'plug-ins'. The problem is deciding what language to use.. I am thinking about using the XNA framework, as this will allow me to do some nice 3d effects, add a nice glow effect, play videos etc. I can have for example the company logo defused spinning slowly behind the current data display. I know however, the XNA framework is a bit left field for this. Or is there a better alternative? Thanks..

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Our company did a similar thing using WPF in .NET 3.5. The developer who worked on it said he'd never have been able to do it in Windows Forms.

Andy Shellam
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AFAIK everything you mentioned is possibly in WPF, I think your choise will mostly depend on what you favour of working in, and are capable off.

Sdry
I can code in (im a developer) Java, C, and some C# (xna from messing about at home).. or maybe silverlight may do the job.. I will have a look at WPF. - thanks
joe90