Programming WPF: Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths

Overview

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 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 Microsoft's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780596510374
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/01/2007
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	871
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 1.89(d)

About the Author

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".

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Forewords
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Hello, WPF
• Chapter 2: Applications and Settings
• Chapter 3: Layout
• Chapter 4: Input
• Chapter 5: Controls
• Chapter 6: Simple Data Binding
• Chapter 7: Binding to List Data
• Chapter 8: Styles
• Chapter 9: Control Templates
• Chapter 10: Windows and Dialogs
• Chapter 11: Navigation
• Chapter 12: Resources
• Chapter 13: Graphics
• Chapter 14: Text and Flow Documents
• Chapter 15: Printing and XPS
• Chapter 16: Animation and Media
• Chapter 17: 3D Graphics
• Chapter 18: Custom Controls
• XAML
• Interoperability
• Asynchronous and Multithreaded WPF Programming
• WPF Base Types
• Silverlight
• Color Inserts
• Colophon