A WPF 'ah-ha' moment for you.
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Now that you have been using WPF for a while, look back and tell me what your 'ah-ha' moment was... Usually we have one defining point where all the pistons start firing and all the lights come on that opens up a whole new world for us. What was yours with regards to this technology?
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Now that you have been using WPF for a while, look back and tell me what your 'ah-ha' moment was... Usually we have one defining point where all the pistons start firing and all the lights come on that opens up a whole new world for us. What was yours with regards to this technology?
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Now that you have been using WPF for a while, look back and tell me what your 'ah-ha' moment was... Usually we have one defining point where all the pistons start firing and all the lights come on that opens up a whole new world for us. What was yours with regards to this technology?
Not sure ALL the pistons are firing yet! I liked this article on how a humble listbox can be completely changed in appearance. http://bea.stollnitz.com/blog/?p=40[^] Then going back a few weeks later and understanding (most of) the code this time. Also as Pete said lots of good WPF authors here on CP. Same thing, might not quite understand them, but let them sink in and they make more sense on rereading. Another thing was understanding that XAML is not some mysterious language but you can do things like just make an arraylist with integers and bind it to a listbox, very easily when you know how. The Pro WPF book has a nice chapter on this at the start. (You might be able to find this on google books, if you don't have a copy)
1 2 3Then once you learn all that WPF stuff, you goto Silverlight and find out half of the good stuff is missing. *sob*
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Now that you have been using WPF for a while, look back and tell me what your 'ah-ha' moment was... Usually we have one defining point where all the pistons start firing and all the lights come on that opens up a whole new world for us. What was yours with regards to this technology?
When I realized updating/expanding my old MFC-based UI code was taking way to much time and I thought "hmm....I'll take a look at WPF...". :) I have Silverlight/WPF ah=ha moments several times a day...
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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Now that you have been using WPF for a while, look back and tell me what your 'ah-ha' moment was... Usually we have one defining point where all the pistons start firing and all the lights come on that opens up a whole new world for us. What was yours with regards to this technology?
Ooh, another one. I was looking at my first attempt at a WPF app, and I was thinking "Who wrote this crap? It's all done wrong!" Stuff like updating text on controls via a loop instead of just using databinding.
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Now that you have been using WPF for a while, look back and tell me what your 'ah-ha' moment was... Usually we have one defining point where all the pistons start firing and all the lights come on that opens up a whole new world for us. What was yours with regards to this technology?