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Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation
Foundation with .NET 3.5, SECOND EDITION
Dear Reader,
For years, .NET developers have created Windows applications with the
Windows Forms toolkit. And though Windows Forms is mature and reasonably
full-featured, it’s hardwired to essential bits of Windows plumbing that haven’t
changed much in the past ten years. As a result, some tasks that should be easy
require a lot of work.
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) changes all this by introduc-
ing a new model with entirely different plumbing. Although WPF includes the
standard controls you’re familiar with, it draws every detail itself, using the
high-performance DirectX engine. As a result, WPF can provide a whole host
of eye-popping new features, all of which we’ll cover in this book. For example,
we’ll give common controls like buttons a slick, customized look without writ-
ing a line of code. Similarly, we will craft animated effects that rotate, stretch,
scale, and skew anything in your user interface right before the user’s eyes.
Tasks that would have been difficult or nearly impossible in Windows Forms—
such as playing media files or creating texture-mapped 3-D shapes—are finally
possible. By the time you’ve finished this book, you’ll have mastered these pre-
viously impossible tasks.
Although WPF’s video, animation, and 3-D features get the most hype, WPF
is just as useful for building business applications that don’t need rich graphics.
We’ll cover WPF’s enhancements of key business features such as data binding,
print management, and document display, giving you all you need to create
professional business applications in WPF.
Welcome aboard!
Matthew MacDonald (Microsoft MVP, MCSD)
Author of
Pro .NET 2.0 Windows
Forms and Custom Controls
(Apress)
Pro .NET 2.0 Windows
Forms and Custom Controls
in VB 2005 (Apress)
Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008
(Apress, with Mario Szpuszta)
Pro WPF: Windows
Presentation Foundation
in .NET 3.0 (Apress)
US $54.99
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Programming/Microsoft/.NET
User level:
Intermediate–Advanced
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-955-6
ISBN-10: 1-59059-955-1
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Create the next generation of Windows applications.
Pro
in C#
2008
