RE: WPF Book Recommendations?
Not a book recommendation, but an article that reads well - from Red Gate: http://www.simple-talk.com/content/print.aspx?article=973 From WinForm to WPF: A Quick Reference Guide Michael Sorens provides a handy wallchart to help migration between WinForm / WPF, VS 2008 / 2010, and .NET 3.5 / 4.0. This can be downloaded for free from the speech-bubble at the head of the article. He also describes the current weaknesses in WPF, and the most obvious differences between the two. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Matt Siebert Sent: Monday, 29 March 2010 9:34 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: WPF Book Recommendations? Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good book for getting started with WPF? Also, does anyone use a Safari http://www.safaribooksonline.com/ Books Online subscription? Is it worth the price tag? Are there better alternatives? Cheers, Matt.
RE: WPF Book Recommendations?
Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? He is well informed in this space, and would do a great job if he decided to. I have been to large paid presentations on Using Prism in WPF conducted by Paul, and he does know his stuff... Nic -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Monday, 29 March 2010 3:43 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: WPF Book Recommendations? On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't done any WPF development but I've read WPF Unleashed and liked it. Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? I've never read any books on WPF, and I've done a bit of it, but then again, I don't read programming books (that explains it ...), so that doesn't count for much. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
RE: WPF Book Recommendations?
I have asked a similar question in OzSilverlight community and here are some of the responses I got - http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/advanced-mvvm/ - I'd recommend spending the same amount of time watching the videos from Mix10 http://live.visitmix.com/Videos Especially these MVVM sessions Understanding the MVVM pattern http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX14 Building your own MVVM framework http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX15 There are a few sites that list all of the pure Silverlight sessions, but if you scan down through them you can easily pick out which ones would be the most relevant for you -David Burela - On the topic of good Silverlight resources, I can highly recommend the new Design Toolbox tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/school/ Easily the highest quality (and most enjoyable) way that I have found to learn about developing Silverlight solutions so far. Kind Regards, Darren Neimke darren.nei...@live.com http://2010wave.blogspot.com - Regards, Vinay Tripathi -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nic Roche Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2010 9:01 AM To: michaelsli...@gmail.com; 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: WPF Book Recommendations? Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? He is well informed in this space, and would do a great job if he decided to. I have been to large paid presentations on Using Prism in WPF conducted by Paul, and he does know his stuff... Nic -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Monday, 29 March 2010 3:43 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: WPF Book Recommendations? On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't done any WPF development but I've read WPF Unleashed and liked it. Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? I've never read any books on WPF, and I've done a bit of it, but then again, I don't read programming books (that explains it ...), so that doesn't count for much. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/ National Australia Bank Ltd - ABN 12 004 044 937 This email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify us at postmas...@nab.com.au or by replying to the sender, and then destroy all copies of this email. Except where this email indicates otherwise, views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not of National Australia Bank Ltd. Advice in this email does not take account of your objectives, financial situation, or needs. It is important for you to consider these matters and, if the e-mail refers to a product(s), you should read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement(s)/other disclosure document(s) before making any decisions. If you do not want email marketing from us in future, forward this email with unsubscribe in the subject line to unsubscripti...@nab.com.au in order to stop marketing emails from this sender. National Australia Bank Ltd does not represent that this email is free of errors, viruses or interference.
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
Being the perfectionist that Paul is, if he does decide to write a book, I bet he'll be dropping in Beta underneath the title :-P On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Nic Roche nicro...@hotmail.com wrote: Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? He is well informed in this space, and would do a great job if he decided to. I have been to large paid presentations on Using Prism in WPF conducted by Paul, and he does know his stuff... Nic -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Monday, 29 March 2010 3:43 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: WPF Book Recommendations? On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't done any WPF development but I've read WPF Unleashed and liked it. Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? I've never read any books on WPF, and I've done a bit of it, but then again, I don't read programming books (that explains it ...), so that doesn't count for much. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Being the perfectionist that Paul is, if he does decide to write a book, I bet he'll be dropping in Beta underneath the title :-P ... that's the opposite of perfectionism. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
You are wrong. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Being the perfectionist that Paul is, if he does decide to write a book, I bet he'll be dropping in Beta underneath the title :-P ... that's the opposite of perfectionism. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: You are wrong. How so? How is it an attitude of perfection to release something that you don't consider perfect? -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
It's related. Some perfectionists love improving upon their work till it's perfect and completely solid. Take google for example, gmail did sit in beta for ages, since they wanted to perfect it. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Being the perfectionist that Paul is, if he does decide to write a book, I bet he'll be dropping in Beta underneath the title :-P ... that's the opposite of perfectionism. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
Since when is gmail perfect? On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: It's related. Some perfectionists love improving upon their work till it's perfect and completely solid. Take google for example, gmail did sit in beta for ages, since they wanted to perfect it. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Being the perfectionist that Paul is, if he does decide to write a book, I bet he'll be dropping in Beta underneath the title :-P ... that's the opposite of perfectionism. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
I haven't done any WPF development but I've read WPF Unleashed and liked it. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Matt Siebert mlsieb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good book for getting started with WPF? Also, does anyone use a Safari Books Onlinehttp://www.safaribooksonline.com/subscription? Is it worth the price tag? Are there better alternatives? Cheers, Matt.
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
Yeah - WPF Unleashed FTW. There is a WPF in 24 Hours book by SAMS that is surprisingly good too for those who like to work through a series of exercises. Joseph On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Like everyone else. I'm all thumbs up for WPF Unleashed. If you're also into the nitty gritty bits of authoring your own panels and controls etc, have a look at WPF Control Development Unleashed. Also have a look at WPF Essential, although not as much eye candy, but it's not bad as well with some areas. Pro WPF is also a big chunky book, but I find that some bits about about printing etc was pretty good in there. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Matt Siebert mlsieb...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all. I remember reading another 'Unleashed' book years ago (C# Unleashed I think) and it was terrible - felt like I was reading something like the idiots guide to OO programming... Given the recommendations here though I think I'll take a look at WPF Unleashed. I also see that Apress has Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4http://apress.com/book/view/1430272058 due for release fairly soon, and I liked their Pro C# book (what I read instead of C# Unleashed years ago). David, $10 a month for Safari sounds like a no brainer! - how did you get it that cheap? Safari is looking pretty good since I have a few other topics I'd also like to focus on fairly soon. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.comwrote: All the WPF guru's here recommend this book for beginners too : WPF Unleashed - Adam Nathan. Sorry never used Safari On 29 March 2010 14:55, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.comwrote: I haven't done any WPF development but I've read WPF Unleashed and liked it. -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
Whatever you do, use this site to find the best price.. Booko http://www.booko.com.au I've found that it's normally a lot cheaper buying OS and getting shipped than buy at Borders, AR or another Australian store.. eg.. WPF Unleashed.. UK - Book Depository Uk = $40 with free international shipping.. AUS - QBD, Dymocks = $59.95.. AR = $77 Grant.
Re: WPF Book Recommendations?
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't done any WPF development but I've read WPF Unleashed and liked it. Surely Paul Stovell will be writing a book soon? I've never read any books on WPF, and I've done a bit of it, but then again, I don't read programming books (that explains it ...), so that doesn't count for much. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
