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 do I need, and what are the best practices I should follow?
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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 do I need, and what are the best practices I should follow?
Please have a look at this StackOverflow post, which has a list of book recommendations.
In terms of best practices, get familiar with the M-V-VM pattern. It seems to have gained the most traction in WPF-land.
Check out this post for what tools you can use for WPF development.
The MSDN Forum is a great place for resources, as is the MSDN help files on WPF.
My personal recommendation is for you to forget everything you have learnt about WinForms. WPF is a totally different model, and once I finally dropped my ‘I did it this way in WinForms, but that way doesn’t work in WPF’ I had one of those ‘lightbulb’ moments.
Hope this helps!