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Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
By: Matthew MacDonald
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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 learn

  • WPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flow
  • WPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deployment
  • Advanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and trees
  • WPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packaging
  • Graphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imaging

Who is this book for?

Developers encountering WPF and .NET 3.5 for the first time in their professional lives

About the Apress Pro Series

The 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

Binding : Paperback
Number of Items : 1
Dewey Decimal Number : 005.2768
Number of Pages : 1,040
EAN : 9781590599556
Publication Date : 25 February, 2008
Edition : 2
Publisher : Apress
ISBN : 1590599551
Studio : Apress
Music Label : Apress
Box Dimensions : 9.2" long x 7" wide x 2.3" high
Manufacturer : Apress
Shipping Weight : 3.1 pounds

Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 28 reviews

  Customer Reviews

1 out of 1 found the following review helpful.

Best WPF book out there so far... ~ 08 November, 2009

I purchased many of the WPF books out there for myself and my team. This book has become my new favorite (with Chris Sells WPF book coming in second - sorry Chris!). The book goes into more details about why things work the way they do instead of just saying this is how it should be done. Books that provide deep understanding of a topic are hard to find in today's mantra of pushing low budget tech books out the door for copy and paste code examples. The author finds just the right balance of code, pictures and words. With this book you get 800 pages of information and not 800 pages of code examples printed page after page after page.


0 out of 1 found the following review helpful.

Good book ~ 02 November, 2009

This book presents the subject well and I recommend it to the other programmers who want to learn about this subject.


0 out of 1 found the following review helpful.

Very complete WPF reference ~ 12 September, 2009

While waiting for a 2010 edition, probably the best and most complete WPF book around.


0 out of 3 found the following review helpful.

Nothing more than a list of manual ~ 04 September, 2009

Nothing but a huge list of manuals.
I don't think we have time to read the huge manuals to get started with WPF in these fast changing times.

And it was boring! Just think about reading 1000 pages of manual!


1 out of 1 found the following review helpful.

good ref for wpf but doesn't help your wpf programmming skills ~ 26 August, 2009


I like the fact that this book is bulky and a good reference to wpf
Don't like the fact that it doesn't show you any programming struture for using the code
Reminds me of the cut and paste in vb5 from the msdn cds
Maybe the author should write another book on wpf programming structures/framework

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