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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)?
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>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


I would buy about anything he writes. Does this book seem like it was written from the ground up for WPF or is it yet another spin on his classic C / Windows SDK book? My only criticism of him is he has gone to the well quite a few times there.