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Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends the application user interface, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer's operating system.
Its functionality extends to the support for tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and it provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data-driven user interfaces and visualization, and integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.
This book shows you how WPF really works. It provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice that you need in order to build high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. After giving you a firm foundation, it goes on to explore the more advance aspects of WPF and how they relate to the others elements of the .NET 4.0 platform and associated technologies such as Silverlight.
What you’ll learn
- WPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flow
- WPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deployment
- Advanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and trees
- WPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packaging
- Graphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imaging
Who this book is for
This book is designed for developers encountering WPF for the first time in their professional lives. A working knowledge of C# and the basic architecture of .NET is helpful to follow the examples easily, but all concepts will be explained from the ground up.
Table of Contents
1. Introducing WPF2. XAML
3. Layout
4. Dependency Properties
5. Routed Events
6. Controls
7. The Application
8. Element Binding
9. Commands
10. Resources
11. Styles and Behaviors
12. Shapes, Brushes, and Transforms
13. Geometries and Drawings
14. Effects and Visuals
15. Animation Basics
16. Advanced Animation
17. Control Templates
18. Custom Elements
19. Data Binding
20. Formatting Bound Data
21. Data Views
22. Lists, Trees, and Grids
23. Windows
24. Pages and Navigation
25. Menus, Toolbars, and Ribbons
26. Sound and Video
27. 3-D Drawing
28. Documents
29. Printing
30. Interacting with Windows Forms
31. Multithreading
32. The Add-in Model
33. ClickOnce Deployment
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent book. Matthew MacDonald explains things clearly and in depth. Most importantly it's packed with sample applications that you can run yourself, see working, and tinker with to confirm or correct your understanding of what's going on.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I've only got through a few chapters of this book on Kindle so far, but my impression thus far is positive. I had real trouble grasping WPF no matter how many times I tried, but this book has a thorough and patient style that is now bringing me up to speed. A few observations:
- The author frequently describes a feature, then interjects with a paragraph in the form of "It'd be really good if you could make it do this - but, you can't. Sorry." which can kill the enthusiasm for the chapter, only then following up with "And here's a better method to do it.". I find this style odd, but acceptable, and it doesn't impact on the usefulness of the book as long as you're patient.
- In the fashion described above the author injects quite a few helpful tricks that account for the limitations in the framework you'll inevitably encounter. A less comprehensive book would merely leave you hanging and allow you to believe that what you want to do isn't possible.
- I acknowledge that I was warned about this, but the illustrations leave a bit to be desired in the standard Kindle format. As is mentioned, it is optimised for large-format i.e. Kindle DX and PC screen. They are still readable, but the quality has suffered somewhat.
- The author frequently describes a feature, then interjects with a paragraph in the form of "It'd be really good if you could make it do this - but, you can't. Sorry." which can kill the enthusiasm for the chapter, only then following up with "And here's a better method to do it.". I find this style odd, but acceptable, and it doesn't impact on the usefulness of the book as long as you're patient.
- In the fashion described above the author injects quite a few helpful tricks that account for the limitations in the framework you'll inevitably encounter. A less comprehensive book would merely leave you hanging and allow you to believe that what you want to do isn't possible.
- I acknowledge that I was warned about this, but the illustrations leave a bit to be desired in the standard Kindle format. As is mentioned, it is optimised for large-format i.e. Kindle DX and PC screen. They are still readable, but the quality has suffered somewhat.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is probably one of the best books on the subject, mainly because of a highly practical approach. The author clearly not only knows the subject very, he also knows how to apply it in real life which I found invaluable. If you are looking for a thorough WPF reference, look no further.
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Thanks Matthew
This book has helped me turn round a WPF based software tool in a couple of weeks that would have taken longer and not been as good if it wasn't for this book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Percy
Pro WPF in C# 2010
This is an excellent book if you are starting out or even have basic knowledge of WPF.
Extremely detailed, well explained and a all round 10 out of 10!!
Extremely detailed, well explained and a all round 10 out of 10!!
Published 4 months ago by D J THORN
Excellent book available in market
Overall the book is very nice, however there are some errors in the code. I need to Google them up and need to fix it. Still I would say it is one of the best books in the market.
Published 6 months ago by Elangeswaran
very detailed
The content of this book is amazing - it takes a fair slog to get through it all but it's worth it.
It provides good exposure to all the concepts in WPF, which is... Read more
It provides good exposure to all the concepts in WPF, which is... Read more
Published 12 months ago by akr
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