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Build Rich Windows Interfaces with Windows Presentation Foundation
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If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken a complete tour of WPF and its major elements.
WPF is the new presentation framework for Windows Vista that also works with Windows XP. It's a cornucopia of new technologies, which includes a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language, called XAML, for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model for controls.
This second edition includes new chapters on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with a new appendix that covers Microsoft's new WPF/E platform for delivering richer UI through standard web browsers -- much like Adobe Flash. Content from the first edition has been significantly expanded and modified. Programming WPF includes:
- Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF application up and running, from a simple "Hello, Avalon" program to a tic-tac-toe game
- Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls
- A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects
- A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring Windows UI
- An explanation and comparison of the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications
WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world and the content-based web world. Programming WPF helps you bring it all together.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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WPF is no doubt going to become the standard for Windows programming as it provides a lot more than its predecessor, Windows Forms.
This book describes how to define user interfaces using XAML, an XML-based markup language, but neglects to explain that you don't actually need XAML to write a WPF application.
It takes the reader through the various elements of user interface and describes how they are defined, laid out on the screen and attaching input events to them. However, the examples that it gives are incredibly trivial - so typical of this type of book. If you want to do something a bit more advanced, which WPF is obviously capable of, you're left high and dry. A Tic-Tac-Toe game and a few 3D rendered spheres don't really illustrate the capabilities of WPF.
The book also assumes that you are going to create a WPF application from scratch. If you need to add elements of WPF to an existing Windows Forms application (because Windows Forms is so obviously lacking in any advanced features), you're going to be disappointed by the 3 pages that cover this topic.
In summary, the book shows you the basic WPF elements that you can work with, but the examples are lacklustre.
If you buy this book, I doubt whether it will be the last book on WPF that you buy.
This book describes how to define user interfaces using XAML, an XML-based markup language, but neglects to explain that you don't actually need XAML to write a WPF application.
It takes the reader through the various elements of user interface and describes how they are defined, laid out on the screen and attaching input events to them. However, the examples that it gives are incredibly trivial - so typical of this type of book. If you want to do something a bit more advanced, which WPF is obviously capable of, you're left high and dry. A Tic-Tac-Toe game and a few 3D rendered spheres don't really illustrate the capabilities of WPF.
The book also assumes that you are going to create a WPF application from scratch. If you need to add elements of WPF to an existing Windows Forms application (because Windows Forms is so obviously lacking in any advanced features), you're going to be disappointed by the 3 pages that cover this topic.
In summary, the book shows you the basic WPF elements that you can work with, but the examples are lacklustre.
If you buy this book, I doubt whether it will be the last book on WPF that you buy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent book on WPF. The pacing is a bit off for an experienced developer looking to get into WPF but a worthy reference book. That said, its the BEST WPF book I have found and I have read a lot of them.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Well, not quite but it is the very best book on WPF that I have read (and I have read a few now, Charles P (x2 inc. his 3D book), Chris A and Adam N). I have read much of Chris Sells work over my many years working with software and I truely love his writing style and delivery. His partnership with Ian Griffiths on this is book has worked out wonderfully and the book is a sublime read from beginning to end because of it.
I love working with WPF and this book has been, and continues to be, the perfect guide.
I love working with WPF and this book has been, and continues to be, the perfect guide.
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Informative and easy to read
Having struggled through many technical manuals I have to say this is easy to read, well thought out, and covers the subject in a simple step by step way. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Lee
Excellent reference on programming Windows Presentation Foundation!
Programming Windows Presentation Foundation is very excellent book, ideal for all developers who's interesting building rich and digital applications with new Microsoft... Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2008 by MichalJagiela
Everything a technical primer should be. Brilliant!
I've read hundreds of technical books; this is one of the best. Period, and without exaggeration.
Sells and Griffiths combine phenomenal insight into the technology with... Read more
Sells and Griffiths combine phenomenal insight into the technology with... Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2007 by Jesse Liberty
An indispensable Learning and Reference Work
Despite the fact that Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon) is beta-ware and therefore still very much a moving target, this book is invaluable for getting to grips with... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2005 by Gordon Mackie
An indispensable Learning and Reference Work
Despite the fact that Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon) is beta-ware and therefore still very much a moving target, this book is invaluable for getting to grips with... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2005 by Gordon Mackie
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