>I have a duplicate copy of an older book by the god himself on WPF programming and would be happy to ship it to you if it would help.

Which one? Petzold? :-) That's a terrible book actually...

The better WPF book IMHO is WPF 4 by Adam Nathan. It gets you to what you need to know very quickly along with great notes that explain the why of many of the things that feel unnatural in WPF (of which there are sadly so many).

+++ Rick ---


>>OK, I am considering throwing in the towel. I have decided to give dotnet a try. I have read several books about C# and VB#, and I believe that I will be able to write some code relatively fast. But I don't want to start in the wrong end, I want to do it right from the start, so I ask for some advice.
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>>First of all, I have Visual Studio 2012 Professional installed and running on my computer. I also have MS SQL server 2012 installed and running. And I will focus on C#.
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>>One of my first questions is, should I use Windows Forms or WPF Forms?
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>>In VFP I have sub-classed all the base classes, some of them more than one level. Should I do the same in .net also? If so, how?
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>>Can anyone recommend a good book (or two) with essential but not too much reading?
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>>Are there other important decisions I will have to make early in my learning phase?
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>>And last, please don't mock me! I will always remain a VFP lover, and I know that I haven't always written nice things about dotnet. From now on I will avoid writing negative about dotnet until I know better what I am talking about.
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>Hi Tore,
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>Good questions.
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>For the desktop: I would bypass winforms and go to wpf if you are doing desktop apps. Much, much more power. A little harder to grock, but definitely worth it.
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>If you do web stuff, I would concentrate on HTML5, JS, CSS3 and the offshoots like angular, backbone, etc.
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>I have a duplicate copy of an older book by the god himself on WPF programming and would be happy to ship it to you if it would help.
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>Good Luck..