Programming WPF, Second Edition
TITLE : Programming WPF, Second Edition (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Chris Sells (Author), Ian Griffiths (Author)
PUBLISHER : O’Reilly Media publisher
ISBN : 0596510373
EDITION : 2nd
PUB DATE : August 28, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
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.
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596510373/
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