Last Friday I bought myself a book called Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours
I have just finished the seventh hour and so far we have profits application layouts, basic controls, data binding and how to design an application.
So far I am quite impressed with the way WPF works and I think it’ll be very useful in designing new business applications that are more user-friendly user oriented and just get things done faster.
When you are used to working with Windows forms it is quite a steep learning curve because it is so very different.there are a lot of controls that work just a little bit differently than what you’re used to in Windows forms.
It is obvious that I won’t be able to grasp everything WPF has to offer from reading this book alone but it is a place to start.
Currently myself and some colleagues are looking to build a new business application and we are investigating whether we would like to use WPF as opposed to Windows forms.
My mission statement says that we will invest constantly in research for new market evolutions to add leverage to new projects.
I strongly believe that xaml will grow up to be a common language for all of Microsoft’s presentation technologies such as server like ASP.net and Windows client development. Maybe it could even serve as a language for technologies that have not yet been invented or at least not released to the public.
I am sure though that WPF is here to stay.
