Good WCF and WPF books
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WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan. So far I haven't found a good WCF book - Juval Lowey's book was a massive disappointment as he spent most of it telling us which of his other books to buy.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan. So far I haven't found a good WCF book - Juval Lowey's book was a massive disappointment as he spent most of it telling us which of his other books to buy.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
telling us which of his other books to buy.
or telling us about how to use his library and explaining his code rather than WCF. It was dsiappointing for sure. I read the entire thing cover to cover but did not think that I learned anything substantial. :( But again writing a book is extremely difficult task. I will certainly try Craig McMurthy's book.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan. So far I haven't found a good WCF book - Juval Lowey's book was a massive disappointment as he spent most of it telling us which of his other books to buy.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Sounds like his talk I attended as well. He did however open a lot of eyes to using WCF for non-networking applications, which was quite refreshing.
My head asplode!
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Not sure about books, but have you seen any of the high quality articles on WPF around here?
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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There are no good WCF books at the momment, at least I don't think so. But come March "Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)" is released which I have high hopes for (Amazon product page[^]) For WPF I recommend either WPF Unleased or the Programming WPF from O'Reily (Amazon product page[^])
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
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I've been reading Applications = Code + Markup by http://www.charlespetzold.com/wpf/index.html[^]. So far, it's been very helpful building up knowledge from the ground up. He doesn't get into XAML until late in the book, but by then you have a pretty good understanding of WPF. Flynn
_If we can't corrupt the youth of today,
the adults of tomorrow will be no fun...
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
telling us which of his other books to buy.
or telling us about how to use his library and explaining his code rather than WCF. It was dsiappointing for sure. I read the entire thing cover to cover but did not think that I learned anything substantial. :( But again writing a book is extremely difficult task. I will certainly try Craig McMurthy's book.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
or telling us about how to use his library and explaining his code rather than WCF.
Yes, that's really annoying. Both myself and my colleague bought this book independently and we're both disappointed with it. It's in contrast to Bruce Bukovics Pro WF book which is excellent. He has his own library too but it doesn't get in the way of the exposition.
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Kevin
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Of the books I bought, WPF unleashed is the only one I can remember. WPF is full of bugs, you really need to get stuck into the MSDN forums as well as buying a book if you're going to do anything non trivial with it.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
WPF is full of bugs, you really need to get stuck into the MSDN forums as well as buying a book if you're going to do anything non trivial with it.
There is a post on Somasegars blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/[^]) where he says that they 'ship what we use, and use what we ship'. In the case of the Longhorn pillars, which WPF was supposed to be one of, that's not the case. But I heard that Notepad, Paint and Calc is going to be a WPF app in Windows 7 (No joke). In the case of Notepad that doesn't seem to be true, but Wordpad gets an overhaul.
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Christian Graus wrote:
WPF is full of bugs, you really need to get stuck into the MSDN forums as well as buying a book if you're going to do anything non trivial with it.
There is a post on Somasegars blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/[^]) where he says that they 'ship what we use, and use what we ship'. In the case of the Longhorn pillars, which WPF was supposed to be one of, that's not the case. But I heard that Notepad, Paint and Calc is going to be a WPF app in Windows 7 (No joke). In the case of Notepad that doesn't seem to be true, but Wordpad gets an overhaul.
Andre Buenger wrote:
Notepad, Paint and Calc is going to be a WPF app
Paint .NET is written in C# and is much better than existing Paint. http://www.getpaint.net/[^]
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Andre Buenger wrote:
Notepad, Paint and Calc is going to be a WPF app
Paint .NET is written in C# and is much better than existing Paint. http://www.getpaint.net/[^]
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Paint .NET is written in C# and is much better than existing Paint.
I agree, but it's using WinForms, not WPF. Seems like they want to use Wordpad as a showcase app for WPF on Windows 7 like the old Wordpad was an MFC sample app.
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Paint .NET is written in C# and is much better than existing Paint.
I agree, but it's using WinForms, not WPF. Seems like they want to use Wordpad as a showcase app for WPF on Windows 7 like the old Wordpad was an MFC sample app.
Yes, I know. I was just providing an illustration of .NET-enabled "overhaul."