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A friend from my previous team was asking about some resources relating to WPF as his team will be ramping up for WPF/Silverlight in their future releases.  I think that's awesome and quite a shift in paradigm (COM/Win32 => .NET/WPF/Silverlight).  Anyway, I thought I'd share some information on learning WPF here.  Also, here is some faq information regarding Silverlight and Windows Mobile.

Books

Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed by Adam Nathan:  Probably the most popular of all the current WPF books out there right now.  It is a great book and one of the best introductions to WPF.

Programming WPF by Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths:  Also a good and easy read.  Good intro and goes a little more in depth than WPF Unleashed.

Pro WPF in C# 2008 by Matthew MacDonald:  I would say that it's not the best intro book as it is huge, but it has a ton of useful information and examples and goes in depth in a lot of topics.  I find myself going to this book a lot for reference.

Online Resources

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/: Lots and lots of samples and tutorials.  This is one of my favorite one resources for tutorials.

http://windowsclient.net/default.aspx:  Our official public home.

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/WPF.LearningWPF

http://wpf-resources.com/default.aspx

Blogs

Check out Tim Sneath's blog roll which has a pretty comprehensive reference to WPF, Silverlight, and Blend blogs.

If anyone else knows of additional resource material that people would find helpful please let me know.

Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:34 AM by vinsibal

Comments

Arnab said:

Great post Vince! I'm buying WPF Unleashed to start ramping up on WPF. I'll take a look at the other resources you mentioned as well...

# May 20, 2008 1:59 PM

Peter said:

Regarding the book Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed, I wonder whether it will have many outdated information since it is published in 2006.  Regarding the book Pro WPF in C#, is it exactly the same as the Pro WPF in Visual Basic besides the .net language?

# May 23, 2008 4:00 PM

vinsibal said:

WPF Unleashed did come out awhile back but I do think that a lot of the information there is still very relevant.  It is a good overview of the foundations of WPF which has not changed.  I haven't actually gone through the Pro WPF in VB so I couldn't really tell you much on that.  The reviews on that one seem to be good like it's C# version though.

# May 23, 2008 7:00 PM

xamlresx said:

Charles Petzold's "Applications = Code + Markup" isn't too bad also for learning WPF.

http://www.xamlresx.com

# September 1, 2008 11:45 AM
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