Migration to new technology

Question

My org is currently in Winforms and we are renegineering our complete system which has following parts - It is a heavy businesslogic desktop application - Should support part on web/multiple devices (handheld) - Part of it to be exposed as enterprise solution.

To define the target system, platform and language for such a system (timeline are to create by mid of 2016) 1. Can I replace heavy Desktop application with MS Application? 2. Should I create such DS Application with .net 4.0 WPF? (I am currently on Winforms so to me moving from Winforms to WPF or HTML5 is same) 3. I would prefer to move to HTML5 for the reason that my web, devices and desktop applocations are taken care - but do not have a path for DSA + HTML5 with WinRT

Please advice. Any other solution/suggestion also is welcome.

Answer 1

It really depends on what direction your company wants to go.

If you want to go down the desktop only route, then yes, WPF should suit your requirements. I would suggest using the MVVM Design Pattern , with the Repository/Unit Of Work Pattern .

If you want to go towards the Desktop/Tablet/Mobile route, then you have the option of developing an Windows App , or a Website Application .

For a Windows App , you're looking at developing Microsoft Store Apps (I'd suggest a Universal App ). If you want to do this, you might as well wait for Windows 10 to be released, as universal apps have grown up since 8.1.

That leaves Web Applications . There are a myriad of options to choose from here, most common of those would probably be ASP.NET , and things like AngularJS . Please note that I'm not saying that these technologies are the best , but they are just a couple of options. It's really up to you to research the frameworks and libraries that suit your requirements.

But like I said, it really depends on what your company wants their application to do, and what devices will be compatible.