Agreed.. books and time..
The biggest fattest elephant in the room is still here ... Productivity! I'm a quite competent WPF and Silverlight developer and I understand what is going on in the background technically (binding, animation, DPs and events, layout, etc), but it still takes me 5 to 20 times longer to write a WPF app because there is no acceptable designer experience like WinForms or VB6. As I said, I hate blend, but is that the cause of my problem? If I take the time and patience to train myself up on Blend, will I be able to use it with the speed and ease that I am used to in WinForms to create complex WPF UIs? Is Blend competency the real answer? There must be people in here who are writing complex WPF layouts and aren't complaining about productivity. If so, what do you actually do when you sit down to write a complex screen layout? I'm sitting here right now this Friday morning creating a WPF primary app screen composed of a dozen child controls all arranged in grid cells with splitters, and I have hand coded the XAML for every frigging control because I know of no other way to do it. I have no styling or animations at the moment, so lord help me when that time comes. Greg
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