 Monday, March 26, 2007
DevConnections Orlando - a tale of three sessions
I've arrived in Orlando and am looking forward to giving my sessions tomorrow and Wed in the Visual Studio connections track. I'll be presenting the following sessions:
- WPF in Windows Forms and vice versa: This talk will cover the interop story for containing WPF controls in Windows Forms applications and Windows Forms controls in WPF applications. Quite a compelling story for migrating incrementally to WPF, but not without its share of pain points.
- Real World .NET 3.0 Smart Client Deployment: This is a modification of my Real World ClickOnce talk, covering the key aspects of ClickOnce deployment but with a slant towards the special considerations introduced by .NET 3.0 for security and WPF deployment models.
- Encapsulate Business Processes in Custom WF Activities: This talk covers how to create custom simple and composite WF activities and all the many things you need to take into consideration to make a robust, reusable activity.
This year the conferences is at the World Center Marriott, a change from the Hyatt Grand Regency of the last few years. Verdict is still out whether this is an improvement...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The WPF Book You Can't Live Without - WPF Unleashed
I've been doing a lot of WPF work lately and recently read Adam Nathan's WPF Unleashed to brush up on a few of the more advanced topics that I had not yet spent a lot of time on.
I can't say enough about how fantastic this book is. Never mind that it is extremely well written, easy to read, flows nicely, and yet is very dense in content. The organization is excellent and he wastes no time on fluff but gets right to the meat of what is different about WPF from Windows Forms or ASP.NET right up front.
Then the clincher - the ENTIRE BOOK IS IN COLOR! Code snippets, figures, Tips and FAQ callouts, everything. Naturally you would want some color for something that is all about rich graphics like WPF, but it didn't even occur to me how wonderful it would be to have the whole book in color until I experienced it. Now, it is like my first taste of a color monitor after years of green screens and greyscales - wow. It was a whole different experience and I don't want to go back to those black and white paper thingies. Alas, I think it will be quite some time before all programming books are in color, but it will be a happy day when they are.
A plea to all publishers: Please at least offer a color variant. I'll pay more!! It is worth it!
A word to Adam: Thanks for this great book. You have raised the bar for the rest of us authors.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
Hands on WPF - dnrTV - Part 1
I recorded a dnrTV with Carl a while back on WPF and it was posted last week. I'll be recording a part 2 this week so keep your eyes out for that. This episode gives a good overview of what programming WPF is like (for now until the tools evolve some more) and what the structure of a WPF application is. Part 2 will dive deeper into data binding, styles and resources, as well as a few other things.
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