This is simply one of the most awesome WPF resources I've come across lately. It contains a lot of pointers to get you started on WPF ranging from

Learn WPF in Two Weeks

to

What's new in XAML 2009 and Introduction to WPF 3D

The site also looks nice as a bonus :)

I've been a bit late jumping on the whole podcast bandwagon -don't worry, I won't be making any myself..- so I constantly come across excellent and interesting podcasts that I hadn't heard of before. One of my recent 'discoveries' is Sparkling Client. How I could have missed it is beyond me, but really it doesn't matter. I can recommend this podcast. The episodes aren;t too long (most files are in somewhere in the 15 minutes range as far sa I can tell), which makes them ideal for a quick listen.

The sound-quality is good, and most of all, the topic is interesting: Silverlight! Other topics are touched upon briefly, but for the most part, every episode is about Silverlight.

The lastest episode is a short talk with Jesse Liberty about Validation in Silverlight 3. Go and check it out!

Go to Shine-Draw for a nice collection of links to interesting Silverlight resources, such as this Old Movie Pixel Shader:





Also, while you're there, check out some of the Flash vs. Silverlight comparisons. I suspect the audience of the site is a bit biased towards Silverlight, but the comparisons are nice and also give a good idea of all things possible with SL (and Flash, for that matter).

Yesterday I made my first Vista Sidebar Gadget (woot!). It's really a very simple thing to do. Basically the Gadgets are tiny websites, so you have to develop them using HTML, CSS and Javascript. There's an XML manifest containing some Gadget specific metadata, but that's it.

Since it's a webpage, in theory you could also host XAML content there, or even XBAPs and Silverlight applications. This more or less works, but there are some quirks.

If you want to follow this path, be sure to check out the following site, where you can download the nifty
WPF Styler which you can use to host WPF content in sidebar Gadgets. The page also has links pointing to extensive documentation!

Note: through a mistake, the last part of this post was truncated... Sorry about that!

Of course there's the standard WPF browser component, but that's a simple wrappen around the ActiveX one. It doesn't play really nice with the layour mechanism in WPF...





Chris Cavanagh mixed up some WPF, Chromium and other neat stuff together and whipped up
a genuine bona-fide WPF Webbrowser. The main benefit of this browser is that you can rotate the browser window, something that is lacking from all other commercially or open-sourcially available ones... Check it out! The ClickOnce is about 8 megs, so have a little patience.