line-of-business-app

What is the best menu metaphor for silverlight line-of-business apps?

So I'm porting an application from WPF to Silverlight and I have realized that there is no standard Menu control. So I look around and find some third-party controls that emulate the menu control, like this one at codeplex: But then I decided to take advantage of this situation and think of some new metaphors besides the standard men...

Solution Factory for Visual Studio 2010

I love the idea behind Solution Factory project. But, unfortunately this project has a few bugs. In addition I don't know if it's the right choice for VS2010, or VS2010 have a add-in that will do it better. Is anyone using it successfully with visual studio 2010? Is there any other better option for the same task? (of creating a new pr...

Measure development platform effeciency

We are devloping an application that is a kind of development tool for developing Line Of Buisness applications. The current applications that we build are windows desktop clients but we are looking into also targeting silverlight / cloud kind of applications. What we are looking for is a "standard" way of measuring the time to build ...

Which technology is used in majority of LOB applications?

Which technology has the most market share among the line-of-business applications. Is it ASP.NET? Silverlight? WPF? Java? Or something else? ...

Max element count in WPF application for performance

Hi, In a WPF line of business application, at which point should I consider that the count of Elements, as seen in snoop, will noticebly hit performance. In Advanced WPF Application Performance, the speaker looks at an application with ~6400 elements and says : fairly heavy but not necessarly unusual. On my part I have an application ...