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Reflectoring && Learning
I had a few discussions recently with Roy Osherove, about learning WPF. Roy is a fun of Petzold book about it, mainly because it goes through all the API and explain their usage in depth. I haven't read that book, but I am currently going through Adam Nathan's book about WPF, and I am enjoying it very much.
From Roy's perspective, Adam's book is too high level, not giving all the details that Roy feels he should know in order to be a great WPF developer. I don't agree with that approach, personally. I like Adam's book because it talks about the concepts, and it has just enough low level details so I can grasp the how without getting lost in the details.
I am certain that there are certain depths and pitalls that Adam's book doesn't cover, and Petzlod's book does, but I don't learn that way. I want a book to learn the high level stuff, the model, and then I can start working with the technology. Frankly, I can figure out stuff much easier on Reflector than from a book, and that is the kind of learning that sticks.
Then again, I am the guy that learned the Page LifeCycle model by going through System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain on reflector, cursing all the way.
Roy's approach is more structured, I think, but my way allows me to just grasp how things works, and then I can do the rest on the job. It works for building applications that uses this stuff, but probably not if you want to go deeper into this.
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Just nitpicking but there is a typo in your title.
Is there anyway to learn the Page Life Cycle that doesn't involve cursing all the way? :-)
Nope, that is a by design feature, I am afraid.
I did the same thing re: Reflector and cursing the Page Life Cycle.
Notice how many exceptional cases it handles that can mess up simplistic assumptions about sequencing?
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