Way back on Sep. 7th of last year, I published an entry on writing your first WPF program on Vista . Now, that Vista is really out, and there is a ton of excitement about WPF on blogs lately. I spent about 4 hours this morning from 1-4 AM (yes that's when there's no kids!) setting things up and getting things working. This time, however, I to force myself methodically to go through excercises using the book Foundations of WPF: An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation . I felt that I was reading a lot of other books but sometimes I just need to force myself to go through some driven excercises to get it to sink in. I don't think I want to put in the steps here as that would just be the copyrighted material from Chapter 3 but the main difference for me is this first excercise had me using the Expression Blend product to design a WPF application that creates a slick UI on top of a SQL Server and displays bikes utilizing Data Binding. I found Expression Blend a much better experience for creating XAML UI's than Cider which is admittely not finished until Orcas. Some things to note: I used Tim Sneath's Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation to set up my Vista machine SQL Server 2005 Standard requires SP2 for Vista. I got it here (SP2 Dec CTP) I know this is not a real step-by-step how-to post but I'll have much more soon. Technorati Tags: .NET , Windows Presentation Foundation , WPF , Avalon , Microsoft Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! Read More...