Product Description

The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation is a key part of .NET 3.5 and provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences in Windows Vista. It is likely to see wide adoption across the Microsoft .NET programming community. WPF blends together user-interface design, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer for the first time (it is able to write output directly to your computers graphics card). This book explains how WPF works from the ground up. It will be one of the first books available, and also one of the most detailed. It follows on from the author’s previous and highly successful books, covering Windows Forms (WPF's predecessor technology) and earlier versions of WPF. It is a one-stop shop in Apress’ proven ‘Pro’ style that leaves readers with a deep understanding of the technology and able to take the concepts away and apply them for themselves.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24324 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.