Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Binaryjam — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:38:53 GMT

Actually I picked yours over Petzold because of his own second clarification, that of structure, I want to dive in to xaml, I get c# and I hope that your book will give me a very quick start to this.

I might buy the other book later, you can never have enough books and as both are said to be written from different viewpoints all the better.

The winner of this is me, two great books to choose from.

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Sriram Krishnan — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:52:27 GMT

ROFL - you took down Scoble, Raymond bigtime. :-)

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Richard Costall — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:39:32 GMT

Adam,

Cracking book - very well written, easy to read and easy to pick up and put down, well presented - colour! and covers technologies such as speech recognition and synthesis too...

I'd highly recommend it.

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Adam — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:56:18 GMT

I didn't even realize you had a blog; I'm going to subscribe to it now. Hopefully my comment wasn't too suspicious, I think I put my URL in there.

Your book was great man.

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Erwyn van der Meer — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:40:36 GMT

I've bought both your book and Petzold's book. I appreciate both approaches to the WPF subject matter.

If your 2nd edition is anywhere near as hilarious as this chapter 13 on your blog, I will certainly buy that book too ;)

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Mike Dimmick — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:18:34 GMT

Excellent cover of Rory there too

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Dan — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:46:43 GMT

Give that blog look a chance in your next book dude, if Petzold seems that is going to be crazy

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Chris — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:34:51 GMT

Adam,

I am a few pages from finishing your book cover-to-cover. I loved it. Vertigo Software suggested, in their Family.Show application notes, that developers should read your book and Petzold's book ... twice! Did you notice the use of the exclamation point in the last sentance? I am part developer and part designer. I got Petzold's book and it simply did not shine a light, in my opinion, on the incredible potential that is possible in WPF. Whereas, your book iluminated both the coding and presentation features in WPF. What more could we expect? I am now planning to go back over some of the material, but, it's highly unlikely that I'll ever gravitate towards the Petzold book. No offense. It's a new world and WPF is a new type of tool.

Chris

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Rory — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:14:25 GMT

I'm trying to figure out if I should be insulted, sue you, or thank you.

My ego is pushing me toward thanking you, but my wallet says I should sue you.

Maybe I should just swing by your office and poke you in the eyeball :)

WPF Dependency Properties as Acquisition

thinking in geek — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:24:32 GMT

I read a sample chapter from Adam Nathan’s WPF book - Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed - a few weeks ago. (This book has been getting some mad props from around the net recently).

The chapter covers the new concepts in WPF which is super..

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

Jules — Sat, 12 May 2007 02:49:19 GMT

I have both books and preferred yours. But I'll probably always love Petzold more for Windows 3.0.

BUT: I'm still waiting for a good WPF equivalent of "Eric Meyer on CSS" that shows us a collection of short but slightly deeper case studies for doing in WPF what we used to do in WinForms and Visual Basic or MFC before that.

And I really want to see an "Effective WPF: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your User Interfaces" (after another famous Meyer). Actually, given the breadth of WPF, make that 100 Specific Ways.

Without this, I think a huge number of WinForms programmers who are used to laying out 3rd party controls with hundreds of styling properties on a dumb canvas are really going to struggle to cross over.

re: Petzold vs. Nathan? Books Like PowerPoint Presentations? Books Like Blogs?

JasonG — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:50:20 GMT

LOL that Powerpoint slide is priceless.

WPF Roundup

Rudi Grobler — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:49:12 GMT

Found the following interesting links while surfing the web: Snack Tutorials for the Hungry Celso Gomes

Review: WPF Unleashed By Adam Nathan

Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#] — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:08:27 GMT

I recently had the chance to read WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan on the beautiful beaches of the Corsica

Sams Silverlight 2 Unleashed (was: Teach Yourself Silverlight in 24 Hours)

Community Blogs — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:23:05 GMT

My editor at Sams (hey Neil :)) and I decided to convert the book I am almost done writing into an Unleashed