I know most speakers like to announce where they'll be speaking in advance (helps drive attendance...) but a couple weeks ago I was contacted by the speaker coordinator for this group and asked if I could speak in a couple days.  In talking with them they said they hadn't really gotten much info yet on WPF and XAML so I agreed to do a brief presentation on these topics to this group.

So on April 3rd, I gave the LA C# User Group (http://www.lacsharp.org/) a presentation discussing XAML and WPF.  The focus of the presentation was that you shouldn't think of XAML as being an adjunct or WPF.  The two technologies are separate and have different goals.  WPF is a set of class libraries which are part of the larger .NET 3.0 Framework.  XAML is a declarative language which can be used to create .NET applications.  The point being that XAML is a full fledged .NET application language like C#... (VB of course is still easier to read...)

Attached to this post is a copy of the slides that I presented to this user group meeting.

WPFIntro.zip (1.09 MB)