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• * Series - Int/Adv Users : Unleashed
• Operating Systems : Microsoft Windows
• Programming : Windows Programming
• Programming : Software Development

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Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a key component of the .NET Framework 3.0, giving you the power to create richer and more compelling applications than you dreamed possible. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner. Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by .NET guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan.

• Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)

• Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more

• Features a chapter on 3D graphics by Daniel Lehenbauer, lead developer responsible for WPF 3D

• Delves into non-mainstream topics: speech, audio/video, documents, bitmap effects, and more

• Shows how to create popular UI elements, such as features introduced in the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Galleries, ScreenTips, custom control layouts, and more

• Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes

• Explains how to develop and deploy all types of applications, including navigation-based applications, applications hosted in a Web browser, and applications with great-looking non-rectangular windows

• Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF

• Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies

• Explains how to exploit new Windows Vista features in WPF applications

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Table of Contents

PART I Background

1 Why Windows Presentation Foundation?

2 XAML Demystified

3 Important New Concepts in WPF

PART II Building a WPF Application

4 Introducing WPF's Controls

5 Sizing, Positioning, and Transforming Elements

6 Layout with Panels

7 Structuring and Deploying an Application

PART III Features for Professional Developers

8 Resources

9 Data Binding

10 Styles, Templates, Skins, and Themes

PART IV Going Beyond Today's Applications with Rich Media

11 2D Graphics

12 3D Graphics

13 Animation

14 Audio, Video, Speech, and Documents

PART V Advanced Topics

15 Interoperability with Win32, Windows Forms, and ActiveX

16 User Controls and Custom Controls

17 Layout with Custom Panels

PART VI   Appendix: Helpful Tools

Index

About the Author

Adam Nathan is a software design engineer on Microsoft's .NET Common Language Runtime QA team. Taking on the role of an external software developer, Adam has worked to ensure the quality and usability of COM Interoperability for close to three years. He has participated in the design decisions that have shaped the product from its beginnings, and thus is able to give a unique perspective when explaining this complex technology to the reader. Adam is a co-author of ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorial, and Code.

Adam has served on a panel of .NET experts, provided technical assistance during hands-on labs, and helped to prepare demonstrations at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conferences in 2000 and 2001. He has learned where developers of all skill levels frequently struggle with COM Interoperability and Platform Invocation Services, and regularly provides technical assistance on .NET mailing lists. Adam received an honors B.S. degree in computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

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