I very recently had the opportunity to develop a simple tool in wpf and C# .Net to execute some procedural actions necessary to quickly make copies of our application. Surely there is an "easier" way to do this with windows system scripting, but for the sake of education and usability (we don't want our clients running windows scripts) we chose to write an executable.
Several things surprised me during the development. First, wpf has become much easier. The most useful resource I found was WPF MVVM In Depth by Brian Noyes. In his tutorial he builds WPF up from code-behinds and simple applications that take inputs and generate outputs. The most essential parts for me were the building blocks of implementing INotifyPropertyChanged and ICommand. This was good enough for my current application, but more complex applications meant to display and manipulate data will probably go into using ObservableCollections and defining sql server data sources.
This project, along with other personal things kept me very busy the last few weeks, though I hope to return to posting more frequently. I've now changed the blog name from "Daily Blog" to simply "Blog".
