As many of you know my co-author Kevin Hoffman and I have been quite busy finishing up a book on WPF control development. We have few more chapters to finish and then we will be content ready for tech review. The first half of the book is already done and we are going through the tech review as I write. The tech review phase will add a lot of polish to the book and make it an enjoyable read. I am glad to have a master-writer like Kevin working with me, who is doing the part of “making it enjoyable” !
At the recent MVP Summit, I got a chance to catch up with other MVP buddies who also provided some valuable feedback on the content. Interestingly, my publisher was also at the Summit and it was the first time meeting him. He can be sure now that it is not a robot writing the book.
In the last few weeks, I got emails from many of you asking about the status of the book. I hope this post will tell you that things are moving towards completion. Some of you have offered to review the book, which was quite flattering for me. I will try to reach out to you once I incorporate the feedback from my current reviewers.
If you are curious to know more about the book, try Amazon. We already have a placeholder for the book!
BTW, this is going to be a full color book with rich set of examples, controls, figures and of course syntax-highlighted code!
I’m glad to hear that all the code will be syntax highlighted! WPF Unleashed was a great book, and its syntax highlighting made it a lot easier to read compared to “black-and-white” books. Visual Studio has syntax highlighting enabled by default, and so should programming books.
I have early access to your book thru Safari. Is there any possibility to get the source code used in the examples.
Thanks
Sheraz Khan
I got a rough cut of your book, Love the way your book has been arranged, a lot of books clutter the space by repeatedly showing non interesting code. I have been recommending your book since I started reading it.
I would however appreciate it, if you could point me to the complete samples, I know you have it “somewhere”
Thanks,
-Sameer
Sameer,
I have trying to get the source code online but looks like it is taking longer than usual. Since the book is supposed to go into print soon, I imagine the site would be up in the coming week or so. Let me check back with my publisher and give a better informed answer.
Thanks for posting the code from the book, I am having fun going through the code, I would like to say that it is a one of a kind book on wpf so far.
Appreciate the hard work put into it.
-Sameer