Windows Presentation Foundation applications and generic database GUIs
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For the past several years, many of those .NET applications I've built have included at least some kind of basic user interface for maintaining or displaying database data from ADO.NET data sources. Now that Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is quickly coming the best alternative to Windows Forms (WinForms), I've noticed that developers (including myself) would need better tools/components to build GUIs for database data faster.
For example, in WinForms you could drag and drop database fields onto your forms and have the fields automatically generated for you. I'm missing this functionality in WPF applications. So, drag-and-drop support would be necessary, but it would also be great to have some kind of navigation control as well. That said, something like BindingNavigator for WPF would be just what I'd be looking for in many applications.