- Hardcover: 1000 pages
- Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS; 1 edition (30 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735619573
- ISBN-13: 978-0735619579
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19.3 x 4.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Get the definitive guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the new client programming interface for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Vista. Award-winning author Charles Petzold teaches you how to combine C# code and the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to develop applications for the WPF. You’ll get expert guidance and hundreds of practical, hands-on examples—giving you the skills you need to exploit the new interface and graphics capabilities for Windows Vista.
Discover how to:
- Create and enhance controls including menus, toolbars, tree views, and list views
- Use dynamic layout to automate the positioning of controls and graphics
- Work with dependency properties and routed input events
- Use XAML resources, styles, and templates to alter the appearance of your UI
- Use data binding techniques in XAML to help simplify and streamline your applications
- Create and publish XAML Browser Applications
- Develop visually-stunning UIs with interactive graphics, media, and animation
PLUS—Get code samples on the Web
About the Author
Charles Petzold has been writing about programming for Windows-based operating systems for 24 years. A Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development and a Windows Pioneer Award winner, Petzold is author of the classic Programming Windows, currently in its fifth edition and one of the best-known programming books of all time; the widely acclaimed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; and more than a dozen other books.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It's a good book. You need to sit at your computer and work through all the examples to get the most from it. I wouldn't have been able to stay awake just reading about the WPF anyway.
You can download the code to save you typing it. I prefer typing it out anyway as it helps me to learn. I didn't notice the lack of screenshots as I was running the samples.
It's well written, there aren't many mistakes (see the errata), it introduces new concepts slowly and it covers a lot of ground.
You can download the code to save you typing it. I prefer typing it out anyway as it helps me to learn. I didn't notice the lack of screenshots as I was running the samples.
It's well written, there aren't many mistakes (see the errata), it introduces new concepts slowly and it covers a lot of ground.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
There are no pictures in this book and - don't be put off - that's a good thing.
If you need to see what's going on then you need to get up and sit at the computer for a while. You can download the code so save a lot of typing, and I found this to be a great way to learn. I sat at the computer when I reached what I thought was a significant milestone in my understanding.
You are paying for every page and these pages are packed with good quality instruction.
It is the sort of book that you can sit down and read, and Charles is a good writer.
My background involves some work a long time ago in Windows 3.1. Life is much, much easier in WPF and Charles does a good job getting you up to speed.
I've been working with Visual Studio 2010 and it works just fine.
Highly recommended.
[Updated: Should have been Charles, not Robert - don't know why I did that!]
If you need to see what's going on then you need to get up and sit at the computer for a while. You can download the code so save a lot of typing, and I found this to be a great way to learn. I sat at the computer when I reached what I thought was a significant milestone in my understanding.
You are paying for every page and these pages are packed with good quality instruction.
It is the sort of book that you can sit down and read, and Charles is a good writer.
My background involves some work a long time ago in Windows 3.1. Life is much, much easier in WPF and Charles does a good job getting you up to speed.
I've been working with Visual Studio 2010 and it works just fine.
Highly recommended.
[Updated: Should have been Charles, not Robert - don't know why I did that!]
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is a long and thorough tutorial in WPF that starts right at the most basic level and adds complexity at a manageable pace. It is not optimised as a reference.
I spent my first couple of weeks trying to learn WPF by dipping in to online sources and various printed books that my new employer had. This was very frustrating because, contrary to my expectations, WPF was not just another windowing GUI. It has several complex, powerful and interacting features that make it conceptually different from the other GUI toolkits I'd worked with. Fortunately I found this book and two weeks later I am enormously more confident with WPF.
I have read criticism about lack of screenshots in this book. I can only assume that the critics have tried to use it as a cookbook. If you type in the examples or download and run the code from Petzold's website then you'll see all the pretty sample apps that you could want. Working on Vista, buttons and trees look different from how they were described in the book (which I assume was written using XP) but this caused no problems.
This book gets 4 stars rather than 5 because I found a few minor errors that don't appear in the only errata list I can find (on Petzold's own website), which has not been updated since '06. I got no reply to an email about this.
I thoroughly recommend "Applications = Code + Markup" to anyone starting to learn WPF who has the patience to work through this very long lesson.
I spent my first couple of weeks trying to learn WPF by dipping in to online sources and various printed books that my new employer had. This was very frustrating because, contrary to my expectations, WPF was not just another windowing GUI. It has several complex, powerful and interacting features that make it conceptually different from the other GUI toolkits I'd worked with. Fortunately I found this book and two weeks later I am enormously more confident with WPF.
I have read criticism about lack of screenshots in this book. I can only assume that the critics have tried to use it as a cookbook. If you type in the examples or download and run the code from Petzold's website then you'll see all the pretty sample apps that you could want. Working on Vista, buttons and trees look different from how they were described in the book (which I assume was written using XP) but this caused no problems.
This book gets 4 stars rather than 5 because I found a few minor errors that don't appear in the only errata list I can find (on Petzold's own website), which has not been updated since '06. I got no reply to an email about this.
I thoroughly recommend "Applications = Code + Markup" to anyone starting to learn WPF who has the patience to work through this very long lesson.
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Thorough coverage
This book gives a very thorough coverage of WPF from both the code size and also using XAML, shoing how the same thing can be done using either version. Read more
Published on 15 April 2010 by Dave Waller
Full of nutritional value
If you're looking for a learning resource that gives you a solid foundation in WPF, or a reference volume that covers this deep and wide subject in satisfactory detail then, for... Read more
Published on 9 July 2009 by I. Reid-Knightley
Beyond XAML
This book is an handy piece of work to have in conjunction with the more highly-rated WPF books. What it offers, largely lacking in other titles I've read, is an emphasis on coding... Read more
Published on 17 July 2008 by A. Pickering
Wow, this is Petzold again !
Buy this book if you want a deep and full understanding of WPF and how it works. If you are ready to follow a long tutorial, and at the end, know and understand many, many things... Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2007 by Pierre Morel Fourrier
Not a practical guide
The lack of screenshots is challenging. If code "looks" like it might do what's required I have to type it out - this makes for a lot of typing when an example from the book... Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2007 by M. Wittenburg
No Pictures!
I'm sorry, but for a book on User Interface programming, I was astonished to find that this book lacks ANY screenshots! Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2007 by Phil Essex
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