Diving into the Vista Heap

Raymond-
You can read a lot of Petzold's thoughts on his
blog right now...
As he has been writing his book, he has had a bunch of great posts. Here is a sampling of XAML related posts I grabbed from his
Table of Contents:
The Two APIs, October 2005
XAML Rules, But Code Suffers, November 2005
Introducing XAML Cruncher, March 2006
Squaring the Circle, April 2006
To Infinity and Beyond, April 2006
8-bit Binary Adder in XAML, June 2006
Yes, I'd love to see him discuss his thoughts on WPF/XAML. I'd also like to hear the Channel 9 community's thoughts.
-Rob
Rob Relyea | Lead Program Manager |
WPF Team
P.S. There are several other
WPF Books coming as well.
Thank you for the information.
Still hope Channel 9 can interview Charles about XAML and Windows Presentation Foundation.
Maybe Carl Franklin can get him on his Dot Net Rocks show as well.
I'm glad I got into this just two weeks ago instead of earlier. I came in at an exciting time.
I like how you can extend existing xaml objects and created new ones.
I was looking for an RSSView button that would tie into the common feeds list that I can set sizing, etc attribs for. I haven't decided whether to extend an existing object or create a new one, the great thing is I can and it's not difficult.
Is the IxFeedsManager and IFeedsManager going to change or does it look like it's make it into the final .NET 3.0?
Coming from an ASP / ASP.NET background I love the idea of using markup to create applications. Thank you for this presentation!
It took some digging but I found the post on the 7 Goals for XAML:
http://www.longhornblogs.com/rrelyea/archive/2004/11/29/7838.aspx
nice video, i enjoyed watching it although i started to lose it a bit near the end as i was in over my head.
which is the point i would like to make i guess. i am new to all things microsoft and my background is flash/actionscript 2.0. i started to learn xaml, visual c# and EID on June 1 but its slow going as there is so much underneath this stuff that makes it confusing for a beginner.
ok here is my point. as a xaml beginner its very difficult to learn it 'off the bat' and what i mean is that i have found i must learn visual c# (i choose this route as its similar to actionscript) in order to make sense of some of the xaml. furthermore there are limited resources out there at the moment for learning xaml and of course things are changing quickly so its difficult to hold onto something.
anyhow as i said i am making slow progress but Rob what would be your suggestions, if any, to someone who is new to this? (i was looking to fasttrack but that aint gonna happen)
Note: I have worked through EID both from creating XAML from the UI and then checking it and XAML by hand and checking the UI. C# basics are ok so i have some idea. I have watched most of the videos (the mix ones are great) and hit any tutorial i can find. i purchased the xaml in a nutshell book (rubbish imho) and beginning visual c# 2005.
thanks
I have a new page where I link to useful "Xaml Language" info (including this video):
http://robrelyea.com/xaml.
For WPF info, I also have http://robrelyea.com/wpf
Thanks, Rob
Rob Relyea | Program Manager, WPF & Xaml Language Team
robrelyea.com |
/blog |
/wpf |
/xaml