Better XAML By FARR
For the last year and a half I have been working extensively on WPF applications. During this time I have learned a great deal in architecting, coding and improving WPF application design and development. This will be my first of a series of blog posts detailing my knowledge gained. One may ask why it has taken so long to begin blogging about this topic? I can answer with one word, laziness. Yes, I have been lazy when it comes to blogging about the things I have learned, however, it is better late then never I presume. So this post is to detail my future blog intentions. Some of the topics I will cover are Resources and Animations, the Modelview-ViewModel pattern, PRISM, Attached Properties, and VisualsHelpers.
To start things off though, below are some links to WPF blogs I read religiously. I have learned a lot from these blogs and feel they are a fabulous starting point for anyone really trying to get deep into WPF development.
Karl Shifflett: Karl on WPF
I have probably learned more from Karl’s blog posts than any other. If you start anywhere, start with Karl’s posts.
Josh Smith: Josh Smith on WPF
Josh is also a must for blog reading. As my co-worker would say, he was doing Command binding before you were born.
WPF Disciples
A collection of blogs from some of the most hard-core WPF developers out there. Very cool stuff.
Bea Stollnitz
Though she blogs about Silverlight now, she has some of the best posts on data binding out there.
As for books, we call Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed the Bible here at work. I can’t say enough about how great this book is, not just for beginners in WPF, but for people who have been developing in WPF for a while as well.