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Can I ask where you work? I'm trying to get a better sense of who is still building native business apps and why. What leads to you building a WPF app vs. A Web

Can I ask where you work? I'm trying to get a better sense of who is still building native business apps and why. What leads to you building a WPF app vs. A Web app?

jorgeleo 9y ago
I am an independent contractor, for NDA reasons I cannot tell you were, but here are some of the apps that I have developed recently: - Image analysis for a massive amount of images. A system generates 60 images per second for hours. Each image needs to be statistically analyzed, and depending on the results, saved to a database for further processing. - An underwater robotic controlling software. The UI gets very complex as it has to process in real time a couple of video network feeds, some other position information, and coordinate with other pieces on the system. Several custom network protocols used by other vendors. - On the fly manipulation of mobile backups. There are certain types of data stored on mobile devices that need to be analyzed and secured beyond what the manufacturer provides. - 3d data of cavern shapes. While the data could be easily processed on the browser, part of the requirements is to keep the isolation level to the machine where the software is running, sometimes to help compliance laws, sometimes to help companies operate under different countries with specific laws, sometimes because by law restrictions there is no internet on site. - Marketing data analysis. There are a couple of applications that benefit from being a desktop app because they give an "Excel like" experience that gives confidence to the client's customers. By "Excel like" I mean a desktop app with a single file container for the data. Using local CPU cycles, and 2 people can take the same data and manipulate it differently disconnected from everything. In this project, there is another group that has a web version of it, but it just does not gain user acceptance because continuous performance problems compared with the desktop app. Hope it helps

Can I ask where you work? I'm trying to get a better sense of who is still building native business apps and why. What leads to you building a WPF app vs. A Web app?

jorgeleo 9y ago

I am an independent contractor, for NDA reasons I cannot tell you were, but here are some of the apps that I have developed recently: - Image analysis for a massive amount of images. A system generates 60 images per second for hours. Each image needs to be statistically analyzed, and depending on the results, saved to a database for further processing. - An underwater robotic controlling software. The UI gets very complex as it has to process in real time a couple of video network feeds, some other position information, and coordinate with other pieces on the system. Several custom network protocols used by other vendors. - On the fly manipulation of mobile backups. There are certain types of data stored on mobile devices that need to be analyzed and secured beyond what the manufacturer provides. - 3d data of cavern shapes. While the data could be easily processed on the browser, part of the requirements is to keep the isolation level to the machine where the software is running, sometimes to help compliance laws, sometimes to help companies operate under different countries with specific laws, sometimes because by law restrictions there is no internet on site. - Marketing data analysis. There are a couple of applications that benefit from being a desktop app because they give an "Excel like" experience that gives confidence to the client's customers. By "Excel like" I mean a desktop app with a single file container for the data. Using local CPU cycles, and 2 people can take the same data and manipulate it differently disconnected from everything. In this project, there is another group that has a web version of it, but it just does not gain user acceptance because continuous performance problems compared with the desktop app. Hope it helps