Katherine, Bypass learning the WPF and instead move directly to learning MVVM, The book illustrated WPF is more than sufficient for knowing all there is to be known about WPF. As to MVVM don't bother with books, go with online stuff and chose your floavour of MVVM : http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/in-the-box-ndash-mvvm-training/
or http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/OPN03 or MVVM with Dependency Injection : http://blog.lab49.com/archives/2650 or forgot all the above and look at Caliburn Micro and/or Prism frameworks. Sorry I can not recommend one over the others, they all have/not-have some pros and cons. Hope you look at the above learn stuff and report back with even cooler stuff. PS: there is just to much stuff about XAML to know, but what seems to be of use to know is shown/discovered when doing/learning MVVM. Regards Arjang On 21 January 2013 11:30, Katherine Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks interesting, but it looks a bit beyond me at this point in time, > but good to know that it exists. The only thing too is that it doesen’t > look like he focuses too much on WPF, though I suppose that they all sort > of intermingle at this point. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Katherine Moss > *Sent:* Sunday, January 20, 2013 6:59 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* RE: Xaml basics: where to start?**** > > ** ** > > I didn’t know that was a .net book. Interesting; thanks. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *BC > *Sent:* Sunday, January 20, 2013 6:52 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Xaml basics: where to start?**** > > ** ** > > Hi Katherine,**** > > ** ** > > Anything by Charles Petzold would be my recommendation. Charles is the > guru when it comes to WPF / XAML.**** > > ** ** > > His latest book can be found here: > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145369079.do - Programming Windows > 6th Edition which covers Windows 8 / XAML etc.**** > > ** ** > > HTH,**** > > ** ** > > Brenden**** > > ** ** > > On 21 January 2013 09:12, Katherine Moss <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Hello all, > Being blind and all, since most of the more modern interfaces don't really > work in Visual Studio with screen readers (the WPF designer is the big one > here), I was wondering if you could please point me in the right direction > for learning Xaml? I feel that even if I was sighted, I'd still prefer to > manually lay out my UI anyway, but I have no other option unless I wanted > to seek sighted assistance, which just isn't in the cards for me at all. > What would you say is my best start? I have a bunch of books that are > dedicated to WPF, so do they touch on it at all? If not, then I'll have to > find other resources since most books for beginning C# developers like me > don't go into much detail on it, and without a description and what not, > then the demos involving WPF are impossible for me to duplicate. Thanks.* > *** > > ** ** >
