How to use Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) productively to create visually appealing and differentiating applications and to improve user experience.

"My name is Ben Carter, and I'm a developer on the Windows Presentation Foundation team. I'm often asked questions that are best answered with some code. This is where I'll post those samples for ev... My name is Ben Carter, and I'm a developer on the Windows Presentation Foundation team. I'm often asked questions that are best answered with some code. This is where I'll post those samples for everyone to enjoy."

"The Composite Application Guidance for WPF can help you split the development of your WPF client application across multiple development teams, each responsible for the development of a piece of the application, and help you seamlessly compose those pieces together into a client application. The guidance includes a reference implementation, reusable library code (called the Composite Application Library), documentation, quick start tutorials and hands-on labs."

"This sample demonstrates how to use LINQ to SQL classes in a data-entry form with a One-to-Many (Master-Detail) relationship. It includes information on binding comboboxes, displaying validation me... This sample demonstrates how to use LINQ to SQL classes in a data-entry form with a One-to-Many (Master-Detail) relationship. It includes information on binding comboboxes, displaying validation messages and how to handle updates, inserts and deletes through stored procedures. "

"This sample demonstrates how to dynamically generate XAML for WPF data entry forms directly from database tables. If the database schema changes, the code doesn't have to be recompiled. XML literal... "

.NET 3.5 sp1 brought the DataGrid...