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If you want to learn how to build killer user interfaces for Windows and the web, then this book is for you. It arms you with the tools and code you′ll need to effectively utilize the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). From creating appealing graphics and animated structures to enhancing performance and security, you′ll be programming in no time.
First you′ll explore the WPF framework and learn how to develop basic applications with ASP.NET or Visual Basic(r). Next you′ll discover how to build more sophisticated WPF interfaces using Microsoft(r) ExpressionBlend and then progress to more advanced programming techniques.
Throughout the book, you′ll find best practices for enterprise architectures using the WPF and its underlying technology. All this will help you quickly learn how to develop next–generation applications on the .NET 2.0 platform using the WPF.
What you will learn from this book
- How to write applications with identical UIs on both Windows and the web
- Tips for collaborating design and code development with Microsoft(r) Expression Blend
- All about the object models, built–in server controls, HTML markup, code–behind, and the coordinative structure of each file
- How to migrate Win32 applications to WPF
- Techniques for integrating special effects and custom controls into an application
- Advanced development concepts, including building workflows and a WCF service
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced .NET developers who want to begin creating WPF web and desktop applications.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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If you want to learn how to build killer user interfaces for Windows and the web, then this book is for you. It arms you with the tools and code you′ll need to effectively utilize the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). From creating appealing graphics and animated structures to enhancing performance and security, you′ll be programming in no time.
First you′ll explore the WPF framework and learn how to develop basic applications with ASP.NET or Visual Basic®. Next you′ll discover how to build more sophisticated WPF interfaces using Microsoft® ExpressionBlend and then progress to more advanced programming techniques.
Throughout the book, you′ll find best practices for enterprise architectures using the WPF and its underlying technology. All this will help you quickly learn how to develop next–generation applications on the .NET 2.0 platform using the WPF.
What you will learn from this book
- How to write applications with identical UIs on both Windows and the web
Tips for collaborating design and code development with Microsoft® Expression Blend
All about the object models, built–in server controls, HTML markup, code–behind, and the coordinative structure of each file
How to migrate Win32 applications to WPF
Techniques for integrating special effects and custom controls into an application
Advanced development concepts, including building workflows and a WCF service
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced .NET developers who want to begin creating WPF web and desktop applications.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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By Geoff Tyrer (ViziGen Ltd) (Chester UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Professional WPF Programming: NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback)
I wanted a conceptual introduction to WPF just so that I would know what it was all about. Gave up reading it word for word after three chapters because I found myself reading and re-reading sections. Not only could I not understand them I wondered if they were grammatically correct. I wondered if it was the generation gap or maybe some new way that Americans were using the English language - or was I just losing the power to comprehend?
Fortunately I swapped to "Pro WPF" by Matthew MacDonald (which I'd bought at the same time) and my fears for my mental capabilities left me - it is written in very clear language - he makes an effort to explain things - it is very thorough and (seemingly) comprehensive.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Should be called Introduction to Expression Blend for Designers,
By Travis Parks - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Professional WPF Programming: NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback)
I am a developer who spends most of his time in the user interface hooking up controls to data sources. I have worked with .NET Forms for a good deal of my career. My primary interest in learning WPF is to see how to achieve what I do in Forms using WPF. If Wrox intended this book to be specifically oriented toward designers they should have named it accordingly. Someone like myself who could care less about how pretty a form looks and more about functionality is not going to find this information useful.
What I want to know is: how to create common controls like a data grid view? how do I do data binding? localization? element interaction? minimal styling? While some of these things are touched on, the depth is limited. True professionals want details, not skimmings. I am not proud to have this book on my shelf. Outside of the lack of detail and information, there are regular grammatical errors that should have been caught by a competent reviewer. Obviously, the amount of care put into the production of this book was small. I have had good luck with Wrox in the past, but this book fails the test. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
1.5 stars for a read-it-once lackluster guide,
By WatermarkSD - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Professional WPF Programming: NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback)
I'm only here reading these reviews now because of my own bad experience, and find that others have similar views.
Wrox USUALLY has great books, to the point that I didn't even bother reading reviews - I just saw they had a book on Professional WPF and I bought it sight unseen. This book has ruined that trust for me and Wrox. Another reviewer said: "Anybody wanting to understand WPF technology needs to first understand the WPF learning curve is very steep and requires a good OOP background to grasp the fundamentals". I completely agree - and this book is not it. Yes, WPF is a very difficult topic, and one that needs detailed descriptions and examples on how to do things in a new way. It touches on Blend (albeit 2 versions old as of now), and has some general points of what to to... but never enough to apply the knowledge to anything else. It's like a general help file that tells you not much more than the obvious. I find myself searching for actual examples after reading the book. Because this technology is moving so rapidly (4 releases of Silverlight (basically WPF lite) alone in 3 years is a tough target to write a book on. Things are constantly changing. And maybe (in the books defense) that is the major problem here. But the bottom line is I bought and read the book, and don't even feel like I need to keep it around since there are not really good examples and reference to gleam from. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A transition from WinForms to WPF... probably not,
By William E. Diehl - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Professional WPF Programming: NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback)
Most Wrox books I've bought have hit the mark on the subject I wanted to learn. Unfortunately this is not one of those books. I find myself digging through MSDN and online examples way, way too much to compensate for what isn't in this book (or covered enough).
I mean... I got the gist of what's going on with WPF, but I felt starved for serious details. Because it was a starting point for things I later discovered from other sources I give it a 3. But there's just too many tap-and-leave subjects in the book for me to get a serious grasp on what it is I want to do with my software. I don't think I'm alone. |
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