Pro WPF in C# 2010:
Windows Presentation Foundation in
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Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.0
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For my wonderful family,
Faria, Maya, and Brenna
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■Chapter 1: Introducing WPF ............................................................................................................... 1
The Evolution of Windows Graphics ................................................................................................ 1
DirectX: The New Graphics Engine ............................................................................................. 2
Hardware Acceleration and WPF ................................................................................................ 3
WPF: A Higher-Level API ................................................................................................................ 4
Windows Forms Lives On ........................................................................................................... 6
DirectX Also Lives On ................................................................................................................. 6
Silverlight ................................................................................................................................... 6
Resolution Independence ............................................................................................................... 7
WPF Units .................................................................................................................................. 8
System DPI ................................................................................................................................ 9
Bitmap and Vector Graphics ..................................................................................................... 12
The Architecture of WPF ............................................................................................................... 12
The Class Hierarchy ................................................................................................................. 14
WPF 4 .......................................................................................................................................... 17
New Features ........................................................................................................................... 17
The WPF Toolkit ....................................................................................................................... 18
Visual Studio 2010 ................................................................................................................... 18
The Last Word .............................................................................................................................. 21
■Chapter 2: XAML .............................................................................................................................. 23
Understanding XAML .................................................................................................................... 24
Graphical User Interfaces Before WPF ...................................................................................... 24
The Variants of XAML ............................................................................................................... 25
XAML Compilation .................................................................................................................... 26
XAML Basics ................................................................................................................................ 27
XAML Namespaces .................................................................................................................. 28
