Learning for real employment

Question

I have a 20 year career in another programming platform. I've started to learn C# .net and WPF with C#. There is so much out there that I don't know where to concentrate. I understand some basics. I helped on a WPF project at work so that is how I got started with WPF but I want to know how to write .net applications from start to finish. I start to write something and then someone says thats not the correct way to do it... I want to learn C# and WPF the correct way as it would be used in the real business world. Where do I start? What else is important to learn? I have written database programs in my old language so I'd like to start with desktop apps in C# and WPF since i'm familiar with that concept.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

YES. WPF is in high demand and there are not enough WPF/.NET developers available. We are having hard time finding good WPF developers.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Desktop and Database applications. I am building a major Desktop (Windows) application for a major hospital.

Manikavelu Velayutham · Answer

WPF - Windows Application Silverlight - Web Application Both are based on the XAML. You should concentrate on the MVVM pattern if you are learning WPF. That could give you some additional value.

L Van · Answer

Thank you!!! What type of applications are people developing with WPF? Desktop database web? I'm going to get that book and work hard at learning this as fast as I can.

L Van · Answer

If I got pretty good at WPF C# and SQL(Which I already know from my previous career) do you think I could gain employment as a .net developer?

Mahesh Chand · Answer

I would say start with a book. Apress's WPF Pro is a good book. http://www.apress.com/9781430272052 O nce you are done with the book then you can pick controls topics and more. Check out WPF section on C# Corner with lot of WPF tutorials.