If you're looking to learn WPF from a book, there are an increasing range of good choices out on the bookshelves that are based on the shipping APIs. I wrote a little about Charles Petzold's latest Microsoft Press title Applications = Code + Markup a few months ago. Our very own Laurence Moroney is the proud author of another positively received book by the title of Foundations of WPF , published by Apress. The latest book to be published is WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan. If you've ever needed to do any coding to the Win32 API from a managed environment, chances are high that you've either got a well-thumbed copy of his book .NET and COM on your desk or you've found an API wrapper at his website pinvoke.net . Almost uniquely for a technical book, .NET and COM was so popular that there was a grass-roots developer campaign to resurrect it after it went out of print - for a while, it sold used for significantly over its list price on eBay, before the publisher ordered a new print run. So what's
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