One of the most time consuming things about picking up a new technology is the amount of time it takes to get fully under the covers and pull apart the various nuts and bolts.

A great way to get started, I know how it’s how I originally got going in Flash, is to pick apart work that has been done by others.

Family Show is an end to end WPF sample that we are continuing to build out and extend. This has been designed from the outset to be used as learning for the community at large and has had a lot of features added in this, its second full release.

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The application can be downloaded from the developers here:
http://www.vertigo.com/familyshow.aspx

The code is available on Codeplex at:
http://www.codeplex.com/familyshow

For more background information on the project visit Tim Sneath’s blog as heĀ has a full write up and history of the project http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/17/announcing-family-show-2-0.aspx

In the next few weeks you should see a similar style of postingĀ for the Top Banana Silverlight application. Something to look forward to :)

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  1. Hmmm …why didn’t i think of that image! :-)


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  1. By MSDN Blog Postings » UK web agencies go wild on 07 Aug 2007 at 11:29 pm

    [...] The team has a blog setup specifically aimed at the web agency community and there are some great resources on there – stuff I’d not come across anywhere else like an end to end WPF reference sample called Family Show [...]

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