How to begin WPF development?

Question

I\'ve been using Winforms since .NET 1.1 and I want to start learning WPF.

I\'m looking for some good resources for a beginner in WPF. What should I read, what tools

Answer 1

1 Start understanding the XAML and control heirarchies - UI markup and the new terms and features around it. KaXaml is a great tool to learn XAML, It is free to download http://www.kaxaml.com/

2 Since you have already got a long .NET experience, go directly to the SDK Samples and start running in it and see what is happeing, play with XAML. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms771449.aspx

3 If you are looking for Blog resources here is my best suggestion

• Josh Smith - http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/
• Dr. WPF - http://www.drwpf.com/blog/

But selecting a simple UI scenario which you already implemented or saw somewhere and try implementing it in WPF - That is probably the best approach to learn a new technology.

And please dont get afraid of MVVM , those things will come handy later once you got familiar with WPF platform and XAML.