I got into computers, oh so long ago, because someone told me computers had "languages" ... I'm finding the thing that still excites me is learning new ones. Now that I'm pretty comfortable in .NET I'm trying to get my C# as comfortable as my VB .NET and the whole idea of the XAML in WPF just seems like another interesting way to use "language" to model ideas.

I've been very impressed in the .net IDE in general with the way the intellisense, snippets etc. take most of the really boring stuff out of writing code. And those tools (and the addons like Resharper ) just keep getting better.

Are you using LinqPad very much?

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>Unfortunately no, XAML is not like my mother tongue (not even close to my English) but I am learning -I think- and most importantly I wouldn't be able to do the things I can do with it w/o it:)
>Cetin
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>>Interesting example given that to a Turk the Finnish word-sentence probably makes more sense than to anybody else <bg>
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>>How about Cekoslovakyalilastiramadiklaramizdanmidirlar ? ( Aren't there some of those whom we couldn't convert into Czechoslovakians? )
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>>XAML anadil gibi, degil mi, Cetin ?
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>>( I think it is Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish that share the Indo-Urduc language group )
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>>>It looks fairly easy and declarative code to me.
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>>>Really?
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>>>To use a metaphor -- I guess this Finnish word-sentence looks easy enough for the people who've grown up with the language:
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>>>Isänikinköhänkään? (translated: I wonder if it was also my father -- starts with the base word isä -- father -- and builds out from there in a "declarative" way) <g>
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>>>Maybe all of this just takes (a whole lot of) getting used to, and once I get used to the pain I won't even notice it any longer.
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>>>Pertti