Book recommendations   

Hello all,

Could you guys give me a couple of book recommendations on WPF. I've read 
some great reviews of Adam Nathans Windows Presentation Foundation 
Unleashed. I can get that together with applications = code + markup: a 
guide to the microsoft windows presentation foundation (pro - developer). 
Would this be a good place to start?

Thanks in advance.

date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:43:30 +0100   author:   Morten B. Post

Re: Book recommendations   

Hi,

Morten B. Post wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Could you guys give me a couple of book recommendations on WPF. I've read 
> some great reviews of Adam Nathans Windows Presentation Foundation 
> Unleashed. I can get that together with applications = code + markup: a 
> guide to the microsoft windows presentation foundation (pro - developer). 
> Would this be a good place to start?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

I didn't read Nathan's one, but Petzold's one is great, and often 
recommended by Microsoft's developers.

Greetings,
Laurent
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date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:11:42 +0100   author:   Laurent Bugnion [MVP]

Re: Book recommendations   

I'm completely new to this and I went with Natans book, so far, I'm loving 
it!
full color, nice perception of the new startegy, (now I know whats a xaml 
file is and how does work eheheh)


I bought from amazon but alone, without the other book, cause I'm new to 
this, so there is no point to have other one until I read everything and 
know exactly what should I accomplish with my applications under WPF and 
only then I will buy a second book, Natan's book is great to know how's WPF 
work, the interaction with code behind and xaml files, or only xaml files, 
it covers really well all the controls, and... well, I'm only in Chapter 7 
:-)



-- 

Bruno Alexandre
Strby, Danmark

"a Portuguese in Denmark"


"Morten B. Post"  wrote in message 
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> Hello all,
>
> Could you guys give me a couple of book recommendations on WPF. I've read 
> some great reviews of Adam Nathans Windows Presentation Foundation 
> Unleashed. I can get that together with applications = code + markup: a 
> guide to the microsoft windows presentation foundation (pro - developer). 
> Would this be a good place to start?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:49:03 +0100   author:   Bruno Alexandre

Re: Book recommendations   

"Morten B. Post"  wrote in message 
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> Hello all,
>
> Could you guys give me a couple of book recommendations on WPF. I've read 
> some great reviews of Adam Nathans Windows Presentation Foundation 
> Unleashed. I can get that together with applications = code + markup: a 
> guide to the microsoft windows presentation foundation (pro - developer). 
> Would this be a good place to start?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

I own both of those books. I prefer Petzold's, because he does only C# in 
the first dozen or so chapters, and teaches you more about WPF. It's a lot 
more detailed, and explains more stuff, and seems more logically organized. 
My only complaint is that it lacks section headers. So you go from toolbars 
to status bars with no warning or break. I've taken to writing section 
headers in the margins.

The Nathan book is gorgeous, that's true, but I don't find it as detailed 
in some ways. On the other hand, he talks more about Commands than Petzold 
does, and I've heard (but not verified) that there are some other things he 
covers that Petzold doesn't, but like I said, I can't verify that.

If you can only buy one, I'd buy Petzold. If you can buy two, I'd buy both.

Robin S.

date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:16:31 -0800   author:   RobinS