My newfound " hobby " in WPF/E effortlessly landed me to Charles Petzold's website. Notice the hobby is in italics so don't expect me to know a great deal about it, the highlight on hobby is to reflect that it would see me months before I am any good at it. I got really excited to learn about Charles Petzold's Applications = Code + Markup . Although it says Pro Developers in the title, it's definitely in my must read books list (which is very very short ). While I was lurking at Charles' website...