Since the start of 2002, I’ve had at least one book project on the go. So it’s with some relief that for the first time in over half a decade, I am officially not writing a book: I finally have a copy of my fourth book, the second edition of Programming WPF , co-written by Chris Sells and me. How different is the second edition from the first? I think the little pictures at the tops of the book spines tell their own story: If you prefer numbers to pictures, the 1st edition’s highest page number is 430, while the 2nd edition goes up to 835*. In other words, it’s almost double the size. Moreover, all the content from the first edition was thoroughly revised, partly due to changes between beta 1 and the released version of WPF, but also because I’ve acquired rather more real life experience with WPF in between the two editions. That combined with the fact that I wrote a slightly higher proportion of the total book this time round (it was about half and half last time) meant that this second
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