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Programming WPF Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

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ISBN-10: 0596510373

ISBN-13: 9780596510374

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths

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If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's 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, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll 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. It's a cornucopia of new technologies, which includes a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup…    
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Book details

List price: $54.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 863
Size: 6.93" wide x 9.17" long x 2.05" tall
Weight: 3.344
Language: English

Chris Sells is a Program Manager for the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. He's written several books, including the first edition of "Programming WPF", "Windows Forms 2.0 Programming" and "ATL Internals" (both Addison-Wesley). In his free time, Chris hosts various conferences and makes a pest of himself on Microsoft internal product team discussion lists. More information about Chris, and his various projects, is available at http://www.sellsbrothers.com

Ian Griffiths is an independent WPF consultant, developer, speaker and Pluralsight instructor and a widely recognized expert on the subject. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question. Ian maintains a popular blog at http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/ and is co-author of "Windows Forms in a Nutshell" and of "Mastering Visual Studio .NET".

Dedication
Forewords
Preface
Hello, WPF
Applications and Settings
Layout
Input
Controls
Simple Data Binding
Binding to List Data
Styles
Control Templates
Windows and Dialogs
Navigation
Resources
Graphics
Text and Flow Documents
Printing and XPS
Animation and Media
3D Graphics
Custom Controls
XAML
Interoperability
Asynchronous and Multithreaded WPF Programming
WPF Base Types
Silverlight
Color Inserts
Colophon