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Learn WPF with Scott Hanselman's BabySmash!

BabySmash The Windows Presentation Foundation can be jarring experience for developers more accustomed Win-32 and .NET. It was particulary so for Scott Hanselman, who says, "It is one of those technologies that's so completely different from how things are done in the past that it's not only hard to pick but, but it's hard to even know the right way to do things."

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On this page, find a series of blog posts, videos, links, and other resources about BabySmash, a WPF application Scott and the community are refactoring as they master the WPF learning curve.


Videos

Lots of folks are sending in pictures and videos of their kids playing BabySmash. You can watch some of the videos below or check out the whole collection.

Videos

BabySmash - On10.net An interview with Scott Hanselman on on10.net taking about BabySmash (6:01).
BabySmash - On10.net Dan Fernandez petitions Scott to add an MMO component to BabySmash (16:50 - 18:25).
BabySmash - On10.net Scott Hanselman comments on how Dan's BabySmash petition spiked his traffic (27:25 - 30:05).
BabySmash - On10.net A BabySmash! afficinado enjoying BabySmash's speech synthesis (00:19).
BabySmash - On10.net Liz Plays with BabySmash! (00:39).
BabySmash - On10.net Jack Using BabySmash! (00:40).
BabySmash - On10.net BabySmash! Cameron (00:24).

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Community Contributions

You, the Community, are encouraged to refactor and remix BabySmash! A number of folks smarter than Scott have taken up the challenge and improved and extended the 'Smash'. Here's a collection of their blog posts.

CodePlex Patches

If you don't have a blog or just want to contribute source, you can upload patches for BabySmash! directly to CodePlex.

Jason Kemp

Rudi Grobler

Grant Archibald