Hello,
I just downloaded the WPF trial. We are looking at the possibility of the next version of our software switching to WPF for both the mapping and the interface. In running through the getting started guide I saw almost no difference in the coding. From the API standpoint, are there any considerable differences between doing the coding using the WPF version vs. the WinForms version or is it all in the low-level map rendering? At some higher level of complexity will I encounter considerable coding differences or are the two APIs more or less identical? We have a DLL that does all the mapping grunt work...it's perhaps 5,000 lines of code and we're wondering how much of it actually would need to be modified or rewritten if we switched to the WPF version.
We have our data storted in SQL Server. Can we expect any significant map drawing improvements using WPF? In other words, how much of the draw time might be from getting the data from SQL Server in contrast to actually rendering the map? The getting started guide says the WPF version uses multithreading...does that include retrieving the data from the data source?
Thanks for any comments,
Allen