Sunday 13 May 2007

WPF Unleashed - Adam Nathan

Having used ASP.NET primarily in the bulk of the UI's I've built in the last few years I have largely ignored WPF in favour of getting a detailed grip on WCF, WF and more recently LINQ. However, with the announcement of Silverlight I feel now is the time to get to grips with WPF. I have just finished reading Adam Nathan's book which did a really good job of getting the point across and also provided a far deeper level of technical detail than I was expecting. Using this along with Expression Blend is definitely a good was of getting a quick grip on the technology.
I must say WPF is very, very well thought through and I certainly would favour WPF/Silverlight (or ClickOnce) over ASP.NET/Ajax for applications from a productivity point of view let alone a functional one.

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