Best WPF Resources?
I’d like to provide a list of the best WPF resources, including real-world apps, free web resources, SDK docs, samples, blogs, etc. If you’ve got something that belongs on that list, I’d love to hear about it. Thanks!
Chris Sells
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:09 PM
KAXAML (a good XamlPad replacement): http://notstatic.com/archives/49
Place to share XAML Templates: www.xamlshare.com
Shawn Wildermuth,
Saturday, April 14, 2007 2:15 PM
Of course, there's the mighty-fine http://www.vista.si
Awesome work.
Andrew,
Saturday, April 14, 2007 2:16 PM
Reflector
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:55 PM
The Expression Blend documentation is a surprisingly well-written mix of conceptual and hands-on in a more quickly accessible format than the good (but enormous) Petzold book. Despite the virtuousness of the code-first approach, you need to start having fun quickly in order to keep up the momentum, and Blend makes WPF _fun_. Even then, it's more work than you'd expect to get through all the concepts in WPF. I started with your book at PDC05 and then the Petzold book, but if I had it to do over again I would recommend to both developers and designers that they start with the Blend documentation and then move on to books covering the code-first angle.
Josh Smith's Guided Tour of WPF series on Code Project looks promising, and he has links to a variety of other resources. There are a few that he calls out as being especially good such as the MSDN data binding overview.
A few good WPF blogs include:
Bryant Likes
http://blogs.sqlxml.org/bryantlikes/
Lee Brimelow
http://thewpfblog.com/
Josh Smith
http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/
Walt Ritscher
http://wpfwonderland.wordpress.com/
Rob Relyea
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/
Filipe Fortes
http://fortes.com/
Karen Corby
http://scorbs.com/work/
Mike Harsh
http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/
Robby Ingebretsen
http://www.notstatic.com/
Tim Sneath
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/
Karsten Januszewski
http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/
WPF SDK blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/
Oran,
Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:43 PM
As far as samples and source code, I almost forgot the very cool samples in Blend Beta 1, the thirteen23 stuff at http://www.thirteen23.com/labs.html and http://www.thirteen23.com/work.html, and WPF.JoshSmith at http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WPFJoshSmith.asp
Reflector with the BAML disassembler add-in is a must for learning by example.
Oran,
Saturday, April 14, 2007 6:39 PM
Adam Nathan's Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed, published by SAMS.
Kent Boogaart,
Saturday, April 14, 2007 7:29 PM
I agree with Orans list of bloggers (thanks Oran for the endorsement of my wpfwonderland.wordpress.com site).
Tim Sneath has a long list of WPF bloggers at
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/articles/475132.aspx
Walt Ritscher,
Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:05 PM
Thanks! Great list, guys. Keep 'em coming!
Chris Sells,
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:50 PM
I built myself a bookmark manager a while ago in the hopes that other would use it, but I'm the only [quite happy] user. Here are some of my links: http://luke.breuer.com/webmark/?cmd=wpf . If nobody is planning on making something more sophisticated than webmark, I'd be glad to enter links below into it. I am about to dig deeply into WPF, performing magic such as writing XAML on the fly using semi-intelligent algorithms which parse the fields in a particular query and figure out how to display the results to the user. :-D I plan on documenting my progress extensively, as both a service to the community and a resource for myself and coworkers.
Luke Breuer,
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:37 PM
Oh yeah, there's also http://www.contentpresenter.com/, which is aimed more at designers than devs, but is still quite useful.
Kent Boogaart,
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:47 PM
I hope this is what you have in mind, if not please feel free to delete. Alex Horovitz and I are working on a programmer's overview of .NET 3 that includes a serious introduction to XAML and WPF: Programming .NET 3 which is now in "Rough Cuts" on the O'Reilly site. We'll be updating it regularly until publication (late spring/early summer?).
Thanks.
-Jesse Liberty
http://www.jliberty.com
Jesse Liberty,
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:01 AM
Lester's blog at blogs.msdn.com\llobo is a nice blog on WPF covering the entire gamut
Also http://wpf-resources.com is a sweet spot for a whole list of WPF resources
John Smith,
Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:28 AM
Nice site!
Nikolet,
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:36 AM
Here's a good WPF resource directory:
http://www.wpfplex.com/
Jason,
Friday, August 29, 2008 9:13 PM
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