So two post ago I gave a brief overview of my 4C series . Unfortunately, after promising to deliver this first entry in the series, I realized that I'm assuming knowledge of WPF development in general. But fear not my fellow coders! Because we are starting at the same place that every Windows programming tutorial before starts: with a simple hello. Indeed, you can consider this a crash course in WPF development itself for new comers, although I would recommend further training before you go full-bore into WPF development (for the patient ones among you, I will be writing a proper series on general WPF development later). But before we get to the good stuff we've got to get our development environment ready. Here's what you need: Windows XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1, or Vista .Net Framework 3.0 RTM (pre-installed on Vista) Windows Vista SDK (provides a quick local reference of the .Net 3.0 APIs and support for compiling .Net 3.0 apps) (optional) Visual Studio 2005 Professional or better. (I'd Read More...