VS 2008 Walkthroughs on WPF?
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I'm just getting started with VS 2008. I thought I'd start by creating a fairly standard WinForms-style UI, but do it in a WPF app, instead of a WinForms app. I haven't had any luck finding tutorials or walkthroughs on creating WPF UIs with VS 2008. Can anyone suggest a good walkthrough or article? Thanks.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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I'm just getting started with VS 2008. I thought I'd start by creating a fairly standard WinForms-style UI, but do it in a WPF app, instead of a WinForms app. I haven't had any luck finding tutorials or walkthroughs on creating WPF UIs with VS 2008. Can anyone suggest a good walkthrough or article? Thanks.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
check the MSDN page for webcasts on WPF - there are some great ones (I've mostly seen german webcasts but I'm rather sure that there are some great english ones as well). WPF is a huge theme so you might even consider buying some book(s?) on it. Best think is that the old MCF-like eventhandling is back (from child to parent) and even improved, databinding has improved much and the 3D support is just lovely - downsides are: no MDI support (as far as I know), no dockable windows etc.
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check the MSDN page for webcasts on WPF - there are some great ones (I've mostly seen german webcasts but I'm rather sure that there are some great english ones as well). WPF is a huge theme so you might even consider buying some book(s?) on it. Best think is that the old MCF-like eventhandling is back (from child to parent) and even improved, databinding has improved much and the 3D support is just lovely - downsides are: no MDI support (as far as I know), no dockable windows etc.
Thanks. There is a DockPanel container, which I think is designed for window docking. And while there is no explicit MDI support, MDI-style interfaces look like they can be done fairly easily by nesting panels. Unfortunately, there aren't any VS 2008 books out yet. I'm going with the Manning book, WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008. It's not being published for a while, but most of the chapters are available online.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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Thanks. There is a DockPanel container, which I think is designed for window docking. And while there is no explicit MDI support, MDI-style interfaces look like they can be done fairly easily by nesting panels. Unfortunately, there aren't any VS 2008 books out yet. I'm going with the Manning book, WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008. It's not being published for a while, but most of the chapters are available online.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
well the DockPanel is a layout container - nothing more - you don't get run-time docking or the menu/toolbar-sharing of the MDI windows. You don't need the VS2008 Books - not much has changed for WPF-programming. I have the "Pro WPF" from MacDonald in front of me (.NET 3.0) and can only recommand it - of course another WPF Petzold is allways good :laugh:
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I'm just getting started with VS 2008. I thought I'd start by creating a fairly standard WinForms-style UI, but do it in a WPF app, instead of a WinForms app. I haven't had any luck finding tutorials or walkthroughs on creating WPF UIs with VS 2008. Can anyone suggest a good walkthrough or article? Thanks.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
I found an MSDN hands-on lab to create a line-of-business application using Expression Blend as the designer. The lab can be found here[^].
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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I'm just getting started with VS 2008. I thought I'd start by creating a fairly standard WinForms-style UI, but do it in a WPF app, instead of a WinForms app. I haven't had any luck finding tutorials or walkthroughs on creating WPF UIs with VS 2008. Can anyone suggest a good walkthrough or article? Thanks.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
Have you looked at articles by Josh Smith or Sacha Barber on this site? They both have written some really top-notch articles on WPF...
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon