First Steps to Learning WPF
A basic question I'm often asked is "where can I go to learn about WPF?" I like to answer this question here on the blog every now and again, both for new readers and to take account of new or changed materials.
Here are a few useful resources that I tend to point people to:
- I wrote a white paper to co-incide with the PDC to provide an introduction to the technology. Although there have been a number of breaking changes that will affect the successful operation of a few demos, I still think this is helpful to set the context and vision behind the platform and explain the core concepts.
- Channel 9 has a number of videos on WPF - I particularly like the following five for the diversity of information presented in just over an hour:
- Ian Griffiths' and Chris Sells' book Programming Windows Presentation Foundation, published by O'Reilly, remains the best title available on this subject at this time. Although it also suffers from changes to the APIs made since publication, they've attempted to keep their website updated with new versions of the sample code.
- Rob Relyea delivered a great lap around WPF at the PDC, building a sample application using Visual Studio 2005.
- And of course, there's a fantastic selection of blogs from developers to program managers across the spectrum of WPF, Expression Interactive Designer, SDK and Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX.
Hope this is useful to some of you.
Comments
Anonymous
February 16, 2006
contoso is indeed cool - any idea if source will ever be available?Anonymous
February 16, 2006
Tim Sneath posts a good set of resources to start your journey with WPF.
He references my PDC 2005 Lap...Anonymous
February 17, 2006
Brian, it's not our plan to publish the source for this one at this stage - frankly, we'd want to make some changes to it before publishing it to be more compliant with architectural best practices. We are currently discussing the production of a more fully-fledged real world application that demonstrates good practices; nothing to report now but I'll be sure to let folks know when we're getting closer.Anonymous
February 19, 2006
We have built a community WinFX focused site, http://www.roadtowinfx.com/, which has lots of links to help people get started with WPF.
Including resources, events, lists of the main bloggers by technology and even some developer challenges.Anonymous
February 20, 2006
<p>My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original material. I have had an intense couple of weeks and the For Sale sign went up on my NH house today as we get ready to move states. I still promiseAnonymous
February 21, 2006
Don't forget that through March, MSDN Events is presenting a session on WPF development. You can catch an MSDN Event on Tuesdays and Thursdays around the US, from 1-5 PM local time. More information is available at http://www.msdnevents.com/Anonymous
February 22, 2006
Tim Sneath, a Technical Evangelist on all things Vista, has posted a great article on where to start...Anonymous
March 06, 2006
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March 21, 2006
There are lots of blogs out there on learning windows presentation foundation ...&nbsp;
Tim Sneath...Anonymous
October 18, 2006
Carrie already mentioned this , but today was Jasmine's birthday. She turned six years old today.Anonymous
December 11, 2007
My apologies to my readers and my CodeBetter colleagues on one more link posting without original materialAnonymous
May 17, 2008
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