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Pro WPF with VB 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5 View Larger Image | Matthew MacDonald
Apress, Paperback, Published March 2008, 1088 pages, ISBN 1590599624 | List Price: $54.99
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Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building
applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends
application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control,
design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs.
Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF really works. His no–nonsense,
practical advice will get you building high–quality WPF applications quickly
and easily. MacDonald will take you through a thorough investigation of the
more advanced aspects of WPF, and its relation to other elements of the WinFX
stack and the .NET Framework 3.5, to complete your understanding of WPF and
VB 2008.
WPF’s functionality extends to support for Tablet PCs and other forms
of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility
and UI automation infrastructure, data–driven UI and visualization, as
well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the
Windows shell.
What you’ll learn
* WPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flow
* WPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deployment
* Advanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and trees
* WPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packaging
* Graphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric
transformations, and imaging
Who is this book for?
Developers encountering WPF and .NET 3.5 for the first time in their professional
lives.
About the Apress Pro Series
The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you
on and moving up the professional ladder.
You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive
times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the
areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able
to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts
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to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion
for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such
as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's
the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces
in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET
Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English
literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation,
and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.
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