>>>>>

>>>>>Book b = new Book("WPF Recipes in C#2008");
>>>>>b.Publisher = "Apress";
>>>>>b.Peruse();
>>>>>b.ContentType = ContentType.Crap;
>>>>>b.Dispose();
>>>>>

>>>>
>>>>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
>>
>>I was struck by Rick Strahl saying a few months ago, in so many words, that WPF isn't ready for prime time and he has stopped using it for the time being. I also remember you disagreeing.
>
>Hey Mike, if I'm not mistaken, I think Viv's complaining about that particular book and not the technology (WPF) itself.

True.