Product Description

The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs. Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF really works. His no–nonsense, practical advice will get you building high–quality WPF applications quickly and easily. MacDonald will take you through a thorough investigation of the more advanced aspects of WPF, and its relation to other elements of the WinFX stack and the .NET Framework 3.5, to complete your understanding of WPF and C# 2008. WPFs functionality extends to support for Tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data–driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell. What you’ll learnWPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flowWPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deploymentAdvanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and treesWPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packagingGraphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imagingWho is this book for? Developers encountering WPF and .NET 3.5 for the first time in their professional lives About the Apress Pro SeriesThe Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder. You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6719 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1040 pages

About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.

Customer Reviews

A good introduction and a good reference
I work with WPF on a daily basis and used this book to get up to speed from pretty much nothing. It provides a good grounding in all aspects of WPF, gives more advanced information that you can note and come back to later, and serves as a good desktop reference while coding. The level is good for someone familiar with C#, the tone is professional and the writing style is pleasant to read and flowing.

Highly recommended.

Excellent reading and extremely useful
I have read it like a novel. The author's writing style and the book graphic presentation are very, very pleasant. As a complete novice in WPF (even not very familiar with Windows Forms), I've got a broad picture of what WPF is, what it can do and WHAT IT CANNOT DO (the last thing is really rare in similar books, though IMHO the most important one when starting with a new technology). Almost any question that I could imagine while reading was answered by the author somewhere in the following text. I didn't start yet developing in WPF seriously, but I am sure that this book will be as great as reference as it was as the introduction to WPF. Thi is a must for anyone starting with WPF!

An excellent way to learn WPF
This is an excellent book if you want to learn WPF with .NET 3.5. It explains clearly all the different concepts that you need to learn if you want to build WPF applciations.

I highly recommend this book to anyone getting into WPF with .NET 3.5.