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>>Book b = new Book("WPF Recipes in C#2008");
>>b.Publisher = "Apress";
>>b.Peruse();
>>b.ContentType = ContentType.Crap;
>>b.Dispose();
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>Oh God, It's already shipped Amazon says .....

It's possible I'm being too harsh - it's just not what I was hoping for. For these guys a culinary example of a recipe would be peeling a potato. The whole book is just dozens of examples of how to achieve relatively simple tasks: e.g:

Problem: You want to allow the user to expand and collapse sections of the UI.
Solution : Use an Expander Control
Followed by a page of code that does nothing but put four buttons inside an expander control.

The majority of the book seems to be made up of similarly trivial examples (although there might be a bit more meat in the section on Multi-threading which I haven't delved into).

Every example is accompanied by complete code to run it as a standalone app - but if you were actually enthused enough to want to try it you'd have to type the whole thing in - there's no access to the source.

It also looks as if the publisher gave them a couple of free bag fulls of commas which they scattered randomly throughout the text - I found I was actually distracted by tripping over superflous punctuation to the point where I wasn't absorbing the content.

Anyway SET RANT OFF as they say in the VFP world....
Best,
Viv