>>>Is it just me, or is WPF REALLY difficult to learn?? I picked up a book and got a few chapters into it and walked away thinking "WTF????".
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>>That was my take on it.
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>>I got a couple of chapters into the book hoping for something that would allow me to do visual development, and all I saw was grinding code in XML, mostly a little different thant anything else so you get to start over learning it.
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>I posted on this a few weeks again, but you can define event names in the XML file. So you can define a button, and the name of the
>event in C# that is raised when the button is clicked.
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>Now my (limited) understanding is that WPF is structured so that a designer can do the WPF and the coders write the C#. So that means a desinger could break your code by changing the name of an event.

No. They can write XAML that doesn't work - but the *can't* break code. I'm working at the moment on C# code with two other guys playing with the look and feel of the front end. They can't break anything as long as they don't touch the C# files.