Check out WPFopoly

By Matt Duffin, Microsoft Student Partner

Perhaps you’re thinking about entering the Imagine Cup this year or you’re looking to add that extra something to an upcoming project to help you to really stand out.

Or perhaps you’re about to go in to your final year, as I am. You’ve most likely got a pretty good idea of what form your final year project or dissertation is going to take.

Whichever of these applies to you, you’re soon going to be starting to make choices about the technologies you’re going to use to make your idea a reality.

But rather than write a one-shot article, I’d like to take you on a journey:

As part of my BSc Computer Science degree, I'm writing a dissertation on computerized board games and I'm creating a basic version of 'WPFopoly' – no prizes for guessing whence it took its inspiration!

Windows Presentation Foundation, or WPF as it's less tersely known, is the perfect choice of framework for creating a Windows-based board game. Unlike its predecessors - MFC and Windows Forms - WPF makes it easy to create applications that are very rich graphically.

Although I’ve had some experience with WPF, I’m starting basically from scratch.

So I’d like to invite you to join me as I blog about creating WPFopoly from beginning to end and hopefully help you learn WPF and find out why it’s the technology of choice for Windows development, whether it’s for your final year project, Imagine Cup entry or just for jazzing up a piece of coursework.