>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????".
I can't claim to have mastered it, but take a look at Beth's videos e.g.
http://windowsclient.net/learn/video.aspx?v=83530The IDE really makes it pretty easy and if you think about it there is something to be said for controls that are completely defined in XAML chunks that can be snippetized for reuse. ( the Snippet Editor add on or Resharper would let you grab any of that and create substitutions)
Seems it would be faster than doing Winforms in a lot of ways - especially given the primative nature of the property sheet.
As an aside, also notice in this Beth video we are basically talking about a local cursor with a moving record pointer. I just do not get the argument that somehow data handling is less powerful in .NET.
And for those who think Foxpro is state of the art - my God, figure out how you would even try to do WPF level interface stuff in Foxpro ( or for that matter Winform level interface stuff in Foxpro )
I've also been seriously considering dropping $1500 for the training stuff available at pluralsight.com (I think Kevin recommended them) They have 3 hours of free C# and some other stuff as samples. Would probably be very useful to get up and running fast on a lot of new stuff.
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