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>>This "either-or" stuff is just plain silly -
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>>To be honest, I'm looking more at Silverlight than anything else right now (client wants me to start looking at it)
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>So far with .NET I have only worked with ASP.NET (fairly heavily) and CF (back in VS2003). I haven't done a standard Winforms application at all.
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>Do you or anyone reading this thread have any recommendations on a good reference (book preferably) on developing WPF applications? How about reference on developing Silverlight apps (that sounds like a very promising technology)?


I have mentioned this book before also. Craig pushes The unleashed book, which I have and have read. I prefer this one (Petzold has been involved with windows a long time): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619573