Though I’ve pushed myself fairly strongly into using blend, I feel that I am lacking in a few areas. Where there is utmost certainty in creating much of anything in HTML and CSS and the varying ways to do certain things and going forward w/ the choice between those various ways based on circumstance, I still find myself having questions while working in Blend. The software is just so new. What might be considered as “best practice”? What sort of containers, and how far should you go with organization? Sometimes it can become absolutely crazy having things inside container after container after container. Its like one of those christmas gifts which is inside a small box, but packaged, in humour, inside so many boxes that the final box is a quarter the size of a christmas tree!
In an attempt to cover those tracks and make the unknown into “known”, I have my “hands” on an electronic copy of Victor Gaudioso’s book, Foundation Expression Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight I believe that it will be useful to comment on the various chapters as I go through the book.
More blogs will come shortly.
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I have heard onlly good stuff about Victor’s book. Let us know what you think. If you get a chance I’d like to know more about templating controls. Blend I know auto generates the default templates and I’d love to know more about interesting customizations you can do starting from the defaults.
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Hello Ariel,
First, thanks for reading my book. I am very pleased to find you are liking it and I also am having a great time reading your comments (your post about the error had me cracking up big time!). I look forward to future posts and hope they all are as good as the ones that I have read thus far.
Also, I am really glad that you feel as if I were talking to you as that is exactly the way I set out to write it. I cannot tell you how much I hate reading publications that read like a boring textbook.
Again, thanks for reading the book. Feel free to write me with any feedback you may have as I am writing a second edition and if you think you can help me to make it better than the first I would love to hear about it.
Victor Gaudioso
wpfauthor at gmail dot com