Dundas for WPF (Not)

Yesterday I talked about finding a link to a Dundas page that talks about their exploration of implementing their chart components in WPF.  After viewing their Flash based demo, I fired off an email to inquire more about their progress in the WPF/Silverlight space.  I received the following email response.

Thank you for your question regarding Dundas’ plans for WPF. 

At the moment, we are focusing our development efforts on the best technology available for helping our clients build robust Digital Dashboard solutions.  With this in mind, our primary development efforts remain in .NET, SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint 2007.  Although we have been investigating, testing and developing with WPF extensively, we don’t feel it is the best suited technology at the moment. 

We do not currently have a public roadmap for any WPF releases, however when this becomes available, we will ensure that you get immediate access to it.

It doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing a WPF/Silverlight marriage with Dundas in the short term.  This is unfortunate because I really like the Dundas suite of tools and I think there are scenarios where charting can benefit from the richness that WPF provides.

Dundas for WPF

A co-worker sent me this link today:
http://www.dundas.com/Technologies/New/WPF.aspx

It talks about Dundas’ next generation of charting technology being built using WPF.  The weird part is there is no link to this page from anywhere on the Dundas site that I can find.  If you read the first paragraph it sounds like the page was written over a year ago.   I’m very interested in this space - charting with WPF and Silverlight.  Dundas seems to be rather quiet on their roadmap here, whereas Infragistics is moving along quite nicely with their xamChart component in the NetAdvantage for WPF suite.  The Silverlight pieces are lagging a bit, but the assumption there is that they’re skipping putting the effort into Silverlight 1.0 and focusing more on Silverlight 2.0.

If anyone has information/links about charting visualizations with WPF/Silverlight, or the vendor roadmaps, please send them along, or post in the comments.