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Yes, I don't have any first-hand experience. I apologize for spreading misinformed data. Please forgive me. The last MSFT experience I have is circa VB6/ADO.
by wallflower 16y ago
Yes, I don't have any first-hand experience.
I apologize for spreading misinformed data. Please forgive me.
The last MSFT experience I have is circa VB6/ADO. I will chastise my .Net acquaintance for giving me the impression that WP7 was hard for .Net/C# devs - and, myself, for spreading misinformation.
Personally, when I looked at it (about 2 yrs ago), I didn't know where to start. How did you learn XAML, MVVM? Just brute force and practice? I'd love to be able to do a Zagat-like WP7 app. To be able to know what the custom part of that app development was.
http://wmpoweruser.com/zagat-for-wp7-first-look/ http://wmpoweruser.com/zagat-for-wp7-first-look/
- kenjackson 16y agoI didn't know where to start. How did you learn XAML, MVVM? Personally I'd start by using Blend. While the drag and drop approach is largely criticized, it's a great tool for seeing the Xaml get built as you build the UI. And the actual markup generated is quite good. You don't need to know or use MVVM to do Silverlight apps. It can be useful, but I wouldn't try to learn that first. And if you make use of databinding whenever possible, you'll almost have to contort yourself to not do MVVM (although you'll be data-bound against properties in the code behind... this is easy enough to change). The Zagat app is beautiful, and honestly, really straightforward to do most of the Silverlight stuff I saw. Like literally, I think if you know C#/.NET you could get a similar looking app up in a week. The hard part... having the Zagat data. But seriously, a C#/.NET dev should be able to be modestly proficient in Silverlight over a weekend, IMO.