Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed

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The practical guide to the revolutionary new interface design tools for building applications in Windows Vista, filled with useful examples

  * Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an important new set of APIs from Microsoft that enable developers to build application interfaces for Windows Vista apps

  * The entire book is in full color, so even the code samples are colored as they appear in Visual Studio

  * Complete coverage of XAML, Microsoft's new XML-based language for interface design

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 Authors

Adam Nathan is a senior software development engineer in Microsoft's Developer Division. He is the author of the acclaimed .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide (SAMS, 2002), a coauthor of ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (SAMS, 2001), and a contributor to books such as .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Vol. 2 (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Windows Developer Power Tools (O'Reilly, 2006). Adam regularly speaks at development conferences and to groups within Microsoft about a variety of .NET Framework topics. Having started his career on Microsoft's Common Language Runtime team in 1999, Adam has been at the core of .NET technologies since the very beginning. Adam is also the

creator of popular tools and websites for .NET developers, such as PINVOKE.NET, CLR SPY (and its Visual Studio add-in), and XAMLshare.com. You can find him online at www.adamnathan.net.

Daniel Lehenbauer is the lead software design engineer responsible for the 3D features in Windows Presentation Foundation. Prior to WPF, he worked on multiple graphics and UI technologies, including mobile controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms. Daniel is active in the WPF community and blogs about 3D graphics using WPF at www.viewport3D.com.