Getting up-to-speed with WPF

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Besides the text documents, has Microsoft released any content on the
capabilities of WPF? I want to learn a bit more about it, but I'm too
darn lazy to read through all the tutorials. Anyone know if they've
released a video series like they did with AJAX? (http://www.asp.net/
learn/ajax-videos/)

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
Besides the text documents, has Microsoft released any content on the
capabilities of WPF? I want to learn a bit more about it, but I'm too
darn lazy to read through all the tutorials. Anyone know if they've
released a video series like they did with AJAX? (http://www.asp.net/
learn/ajax-videos/)

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
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I don't know about videos... But, Adam Nathan's "Windows Presentation
Foundation Unleashed" (Sams) and Charles Petzold's "Applications=Code
+Markup" (MS Press) are both pretty good books about WPF.
 
I don't know about videos... But, Adam Nathan's "Windows Presentation
Foundation Unleashed" (Sams) and Charles Petzold's "Applications=Code
+Markup" (MS Press) are both pretty good books about WPF.
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Thanks, I'm just not sure I want to devote the time to read a book for
a technology I won't use for a while (I've switched almost entirely to
ASP.NET web apps). I was hoping for some "lunch-break" videos that I
could watch while I ate. Oh well, once XBAP/Silverlight becomes more
popular I'll get around to reading....

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
Seth,

Most of my experience with .Net is with VB.Net and winforms. Can you
recommend any resources for getting up to speed with asp.net?

Kerry Moorman
 
Thanks, I'm just not sure I want to devote the time to read a book for
a technology I won't use for a while (I've switched almost entirely to
ASP.NET web apps). I was hoping for some "lunch-break" videos that I
could watch while I ate. Oh well, once XBAP/Silverlight becomes more
popular I'll get around to reading....

Thanks,

Seth Rowe- Hide quoted text -

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That's cool... But your missing out. WPF/XAML is pretty fun actually
- I've started using quite a bit of it lately.
 
Seth,

Most of my experience with .Net is with VB.Net and winforms. Can you
recommend any resources for getting up to speed with asp.net?

Kerry Moorman
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Even though I'm not a real big advocate of getting certified, the MCTS
Web-based Client Development training kits are pretty good for making
the switch. They do a good job of switching your mindset from the
"windows world" to the web (a massively different area). The books are
clearly aimed at beginners (a big reason why the certs are discounted)
and include numerous step-by-step examples that are designed to get
you familiar as possible, as quickly as possible.

But really, the best thing to read up on is things like CSS,
Javascript, html, and basic web-design principles. After all, user's
will see, and care more about, the frontend design than the .Net code
running the show. The code behind the page is basically the same as
the you're used to, but you have to get used to it being only for
business logic, almost all the non-critical code is done with CSS or
Javascript.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
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