WPF 4 Unleashed

The #1 WPF Book--Now Updated for WPF 4!

 

Full Color: Code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio!

 

Thorough, authoritative coverage, practical examples, clear writing, and full-color presentation make this one of the most widely acclaimed programming books of the last decade.

 

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating Windows user interfaces, 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, multi-touch, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner. WPF 4 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by WPF 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
• Highlights the latest features, such as multi-touch, text rendering improvements, XAML language enhancements, new controls, the Visual State Manager, easing functions, and much more
• Delves into topics that arent covered by most books: 3D, speech, audio/video, documents, effects
• Shows how to create popular UI elements, such as Galleries, ScreenTips, and more
• Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes
• Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF
• Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, DirectX, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies
• Explains how to exploit new Windows 7 features, such as Jump Lists and taskbar customizations

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Adam Nathan is a principal software development engineer for Microsoft Visual Studio, the latest version of which has been transformed into a first-class WPF application. Adam was previously the founding developer and architect for Popfly, Microsoft's first product built on Silverlight, named one of the 25 most innovative products of 2007 by PCWorld Magazine. Having started his career on Microsoft's Common Language Runtime team, Adam has been at the core of .NET and WPF technologies since the very beginning. Adam's books have been considered required reading by many inside Microsoft and throughout the industry. He is the author of the best-selling WPF Unleashed (Sams, 2006) that was nominated for a 2008 Jolt Award, Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed (Sams, 2008), and .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 including .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2 (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Windows Developer Power Tools (O'Reilly, 2006). Adam is also the creator of PINVOKE.NET and its Visual Studio add-in. You can find him online at www.adamnathan.net, or @adamnathan on Twitter.

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Introduction     1

Who Should Read This Book?      2

Software Requirements     3

Code Examples     4

How This Book Is Organized     4

Part I: Background     4

Part II: Building a WPF Application     4

Part III: Controls     5

Part IV: Features for Professional Developers     5

Part V: Rich Media     5

Part VI: Advanced Topics     6

Conventions Used in This Book     6

 

Part I Background

Chapter 1: Why WPF, and What About Silverlight?      9

A Look at the Past      10

Enter WPF     11

The Evolution of WPF     14

Enhancements in WPF 3.5 and WPF 3.5 SP1     15

Enhancements in WPF 4     16

What About Silverlight?      18

Summary     19

 

Chapter 2: XAML Demystified     21

XAML Defined     23

Elements and Attributes     24

Namespaces      26

Property Elements     29

Type Converters     30

Markup Extensions     32

Children of Object Elements .      35

The Content Property     35

Collection Items     36

More Type Conversion     38

Mixing XAML with Procedural Code     40

Loading and Parsing XAML at Runtime     40

Compiling XAML     43

Introducing XAML2009     48

Full Generics Support     49

Dictionary Keys of Any Type     50

Built-In System Data Types     50

Instantiating Objects with Non-Default Constructors     51

Getting Instances via Factory Methods     51

Event Handler Flexibility     52

Defining New Properties     53

Fun with XAML Readers and Writers     53

Overview     53

The Node Loop     56

Reading XAML     57

Writing to Live Objects      61

Writing to XML     63

XamlServices     64

XAML Keywords     67

Summary     70

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