Pro WPF in C# 2010

Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends the application user interface, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer's operating system.

Its functionality extends to the support for tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and it provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data-driven user interfaces and visualization, and integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.

This book shows you how WPF really works. It provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice that you need in order to build high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. After giving you a firm foundation, it goes on to explore the more advance aspects of WPF and how they relate to the others elements of the .NET 4.0 platform and associated technologies such as Silverlight.

What youll 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 this book is for

This book is designed for developers encountering WPF for the first time in their professional lives. A working knowledge of C# and the basic architecture of .NET is helpful to follow the examples easily, but all concepts will be explained from the ground up.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing WPF
2. XAML
3. Layout
4. Dependency Properties
5. Routed Events
6. Controls
7. The Application
8. Element Binding
9. Commands
10. Resources
11. Styles and Behaviors
12. Shapes, Brushes, and Transforms
13. Geometries and Drawings
14. Effects and Visuals
15. Animation Basics
16. Advanced Animation
17. Control Templates
18. Custom Elements
19. Data Binding
20. Formatting Bound Data
21. Data Views
22. Lists, Trees, and Grids
23. Windows
24. Pages and Navigation
25. Menus, Toolbars, and Ribbons
26. Sound and Video
27. 3-D Drawing
28. Documents
29. Printing
30. Interacting with Windows Forms
31. Multithreading
32. The Add-in Model
33. ClickOnce Deployment

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