{"id":5123,"date":"2007-11-24T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2007\/11\/24\/petzold-wpf-book-sample-conversion-update-young-joo\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:37:46","slug":"petzold-wpf-book-sample-conversion-update-young-joo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/petzold-wpf-book-sample-conversion-update-young-joo\/","title":{"rendered":"Petzold WPF Book Sample Conversion Update (Young Joo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I posted <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/archive\/2007\/11\/04\/petzold-chapter-3.aspx\">Chapter 3 of Petzold&#8217;s WPF book converted to VB<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; In case you missed it, <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/archive\/2007\/10\/06\/why-you-should-learn-wpf.aspx\">Patrick started working on this project<\/a> which I took over early this month.&nbsp; Anyway, I am very excited to tell you about progress we&#8217;ve been able to make so far.<\/p>\n<p>First, we now have&nbsp;a separate article page, <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/pages\/Petzold-WPF-VB-Samples.aspx\">Applications = Code + Markup (Charles Petzold) Visual Basic Code Sample<\/a>,&nbsp;where you can grab all the converted sample packages.&nbsp; We will be updating this article page as we continue with our conversion project.&nbsp;We did this to make it easier for you to find all sample codes without looking through old blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that I told you about extra help we got, Evan Lim from <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foothill.edu\/\">Foothill Community College<\/a>?&nbsp; Well, Evan is a trooper and he finished converting Ch. 4 &#8211; 12.&nbsp; They are posted in the article page now!&nbsp; Thanks Evan!<\/p>\n<p>Another exciting news.&nbsp; <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vbcity.com\/xtab\/\">Ged Mead<\/a>, a VB MVP, has also decided to join the project recently and he already started working on converting several chapters.&nbsp; With Evan and Ged working together, I think we will be able to finish converting the entire book very soon.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I would like to know if this project is being helpful to you guys.&nbsp; Are you guys actually looking at the converted sample code while reading the book?&nbsp; Does it help to have both C# and VB code available?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Thanks!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since I posted Chapter 3 of Petzold&#8217;s WPF book converted to VB.&nbsp;&nbsp; In case you missed it, Patrick started working on this project which I took over early this month.&nbsp; Anyway, I am very excited to tell you about progress we&#8217;ve been able to make so far. First, we now have&nbsp;a separate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,195],"tags":[183,187],"class_list":["post-5123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samples-and-downloads","category-visual-basic","tag-wpf","tag-young-joo"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Been a while since I posted Chapter 3 of Petzold&#8217;s WPF book converted to VB.&nbsp;&nbsp; In case you missed it, Patrick started working on this project which I took over early this month.&nbsp; Anyway, I am very excited to tell you about progress we&#8217;ve been able to make so far. First, we now have&nbsp;a separate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}