Description
If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vistas new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsofts 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, youll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, youll 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. Its 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 Microsofts 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.
Author: Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: OReilly Media
Published: 10/02/2007
Pages: 871
Weight: 3.02lbs
Size: 9.18h x 7.08w x 1.89d
ISBN: 9780596510374
Language: English
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