{"id":5133,"date":"2007-11-24T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2007\/11\/24\/applications-code-markup-charles-petzold-visual-basic-code-sample\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:37:51","slug":"applications-code-markup-charles-petzold-visual-basic-code-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/applications-code-markup-charles-petzold-visual-basic-code-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications = Code + Markup (Charles Petzold) Visual Basic Code Sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlespetzold.com\/\">Charles Petzold<\/a>&#8216;s latest book, <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/MSPress\/books\/6476.aspx\">Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation<\/a>, is the best WPF book available right now.&nbsp; Unfortuantely, all code samples in the book are written in C#.&nbsp; In order to help VB developers trying to learn about WPF, we are working with a couple of VB experts to convert all samples appearing in the book to VB.&nbsp; As we&nbsp;finish converting&nbsp;each chapter, this page will be updated with a link to sample code package.<\/p>\n<p>Quick info about two experts helping us with this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Evan Lim<\/strong> is currently&nbsp;teaching <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schrotenboer.com\/foothill\/cis-019m.htm\">WPF<\/a> &amp; <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schrotenboer.com\/foothill\/cis-019m.htm\">Blend<\/a> courses at <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foothill.edu\/\">Foothill Community College<\/a> in Los Altos, CA.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vbcity.com\/xtab\/\">Ged Mead<\/a><\/strong>, VB MVP,&nbsp;is currently&nbsp;based in an idyllic lochside location in the West of Scotland and&nbsp;is currently involved in an ever-widening range of VB.NET development projects, which include research for a proposed .NET book as well as writing articles, organising and creating online courses in .NET technologies.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Link to a single download: <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/code.msdn.microsoft.com\/Project\/Download\/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=petzoldsamplevb&amp;DownloadId=244\">Petzold_WPF_VB_All.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To access&nbsp;code files for&nbsp;individual chapters,&nbsp;visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/code.msdn.microsoft.com\/petzoldsamplevb\">http:\/\/code.msdn.microsoft.com\/petzoldsamplevb<\/a>&nbsp;which will take you to the MSDN Code Gallery page for this project.&nbsp; Click on &#8216;Releases&#8217; tab to access code files.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Petzold&#8216;s latest book, Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, is the best WPF book available right now.&nbsp; Unfortuantely, all code samples in the book are written in C#.&nbsp; In order to help VB developers trying to learn about WPF, we are working with a couple of VB [&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":[119,183,187],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samples-and-downloads","category-visual-basic","tag-pages","tag-wpf","tag-young-joo"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Charles Petzold&#8216;s latest book, Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, is the best WPF book available right now.&nbsp; 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