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  • Paperback: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (21 Dec 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0672328917
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672328916
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 2.9 x 23 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 267,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio.

 

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a key component of the .NET Framework 3.0, giving you the power to create richer and more compelling applications than you dreamed possible. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner. Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by .NET guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan.

 

· Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)

· Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more

· Features a chapter on 3D graphics by Daniel Lehenbauer, lead developer responsible for WPF 3D

· Delves into non-mainstream topics: speech, audio/video, documents, bitmap effects, and more

· Shows how to create popular UI elements, such as features introduced in the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Galleries, ScreenTips, custom control layouts, and more

· Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes

· Explains how to develop and deploy all types of applications, including navigation-based applications, applications hosted in a Web browser, and applications with great-looking non-rectangular windows

· Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF

· Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies

· Explains how to exploit new Windows Vista features in WPF applications

 

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Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio.

 

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a key component of the .NET Framework 3.0, giving you the power to create richer and more compelling applications than you dreamed possible. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner. Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by .NET guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan.

 

· Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)

· Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more

· Features a chapter on 3D graphics by Daniel Lehenbauer, lead developer responsible for WPF 3D

· Delves into non-mainstream topics: speech, audio/video, documents, bitmap effects, and more

· Shows how to create popular UI elements, such as features introduced in the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Galleries, ScreenTips, custom control layouts, and more

· Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes

· Explains how to develop and deploy all types of applications, including navigation-based applications, applications hosted in a Web browser, and applications with great-looking non-rectangular windows

· Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF

· Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies

· Explains how to exploit new Windows Vista features in WPF applications

 


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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read a fair few WPF books over the last month and can honestly say this book comes out top if you're looking for an introduction to WPF!

The full colour screen shots, and step-by-step approach to WPF made this book a pleasure to read. Especially useful were the 'common pitfalls in WPF' textboxes.

I would highly recommend this for early adopters looking for their first book on WPF.
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This is perhaps the most pleasurable technical books to read, the author writes with a really clear manner and with obvious passion, which makes it a pleasure to read. That coupled with stunning full colour diagrams, and code examples really provide an enjoyable experience. I have recently made the move from web based applications to WPF and have found this book to be invaluable in making that transition possible. Not only does it cover the fundamentals of have WPF works it provides in insight into how you can make your applications more user friendly.

This book is defiantly aimed at the professional developer, some of the concepts covered require a good understanding of application design and the .net Framework, in addition to a good mathematical grounding (some of the maths took me back to my physics degree course).
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I purchased this because it was the first post-RTM book on WPF to hit the market; so a lesson to all publishers out there. Before I start I have a confession: I am basing this review on the four chapters that I have actually read and the remaining chapters that I have merely skimmed. It should still be a fair summation though.

The good thing about this book is that it is written by someone who has been heavily involved in the development of .NET at Microsoft and co-authored by a man with similarly impressive credentials with WPF. So it passes the 3 C's (comprehensive, concise, and complete) easily. It is rather impressively (as it proudly advertises on the front cover) in full colour - which I have to say is a good thing for a book focusing on a *presentation* foundation.

The problem with this book is that is that it is (as the author states in the introduction) aimed at software developers. One would think this to be fortuitous, as developer is one of the many job titles that I go under - but it means that the structure of the book is such that having read it, developers will continue to work in the same way that they always have but with only a marginal paradigm shift. To put that in something resembling English: the problem that WPF has the potential to solve is the separation of user interface structure from user interface style (very much as HTML and CSS do on the web). This means developers could code whole application without wasting time on making it look pretty, choosing instead to leave that to designers.

Anyway, my gripe is that if this book were structured in a way that at least some of it would be useful to designers, as well as encouraging developers to remove style considerations from their field of vision; then it would be a much better volume.

To be fair, this is a well written introduction to WPF for developers - but it introduces too much complexity too soon (I glazed over by chapter 3) and doesn't lend itself well to involving designers in software development. The author does warn that learning WPF is a steep learning curve but unless you're pretty determined to start using WPF now, this book is just going to encourage procrastination. It appears to be the only up-to-date book out there though, so that alone makes it worth the (very reasonable) price.
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This used to be a great WPF book, However "WPF 4 Unleashed" is now...
I read this book and learned a lot from it, I think at the time it was one of the best WPF book on the market. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Ian Ringrose
Well produced... but lacking for experienced developers
Background first : I bought this book as a died-in-the-wool winforms developer of 15 years entrenched experience, with a realisation that I need to get up to speed with WPF. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. P. Stamp
An Excellent Book to Keep by Your Computer
WPF Unleashed (by Adam Nathan) Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) is an excellent second step for anyone trying to get to grips with the whole WPF mindset. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Henry Minute
Best WPF book so far
I really like this book.

It is by no means a definitive WPF bible (that's what the Internet is for) but it tells you how to do things in WPF. Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2008 by Lee Englestone
Excellent introduction to the subject
I very much enjoyed reading this book and was able to put what I'd learned into practice straight away and produce a clean and functional data-bound GUI in Silverlight 2.0. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2008 by Smudger
One of the best technical tomes out there
The book is truly one of the best technical tomes I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I picked it up and read the book cover to cover over the course of a few evenings; it... Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2007 by Mr. P. Winstanley
Mediocre but just about adequate
Mediocre but just about adequate *if you already understand Win Forms.* Otherwise, despite what the introduction says, forget it. Much better than the dreadful "Pro WPF" though.
Published on 21 Oct 2007 by ItsNotMe
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