Hi Brian
Thanks for the link to Karls' training. It was very useful. Your narrative captures my frustration and hopes. I am wondering about positioning fields on the controls - do you tend to write XAML or use the designer? Kirsten _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Whitehorn Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 11:01 AM To: 'ozWPF' Subject: RE: Getting up to speed in wpf Hi Kirsten, I'm also new to WPF via WinForms via VB6 via COBOL, and by no means a WPF expert, but I have found while WPF allows for the same "style" of building a form as to what WinForms did, there is far more power and flexibility to be had by not doing it the winforms way. A resource I found very useful (apart from "forgetting what I 'know', which is often the hardest") was "In the Box - MVVM training" http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/in-the-box-ndash-mvvm-training / I found the whole process goes something along the lines of "I used to be able to do this in 2 minutes, this is soooo much more", to "aaah, that's pretty cool", to "nah, 5 minutes ago and I'd have already been finished", to "nice, this will allow for much better reuse".. it'll take time to get to grips, don't give up, the more you carry on with it, the picture becomes clearer (like putting pieces of a puzzle together) . I'll try find my list of other links I stored when 1st delving into the WPF bits. Enjoy! Cheers, Brian. PS > even before the mvvm, I just plonked controls into the XAML and altered by hand editing the xaml, just to get a feel for what the xaml does, and what properties etc on the "mainly used" controls used. Understanding how the xaml and the controls made the step to the designer in VS and Expression Blend much easier to understand per what I was trying to achieve. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 10:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Getting up to speed in wpf Hi All I am new to WPF and missing the winforms way of doing things . I am wondering about the best way to get up to speed Do people usually set the data source and drag drop controls onto the designer - or use write XAML - or use Expression Blend - or something else? Pros and Cons? Thanks Kirsten __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6652 (20111122) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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