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 you’ll learnWPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flowWPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deploymentAdvanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and treesWPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packagingGraphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imagingWho this book is forThis 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 Contents1. Introducing WPF2. XAML3. Layout4. Dependency Properties5. Routed Events6. Controls7. The Application8. Element Binding9. Commands10. Resources11. Styles and Behaviors12. Shapes, Brushes, and Transforms13. Geometries and Drawings14. Effects and Visuals15. Animation Basics16. Advanced Animation17. Control Templates18. Custom Elements19. Data Binding20. Formatting Bound Data21. Data Views22. Lists, Trees, and Grids23. Windows24. Pages and Navigation25. Menus, Toolbars, and Ribbons26. Sound and Video27. 3-D Drawing28. Documents29. Printing30. Interacting with Windows Forms31. Multithreading32. The Add-in Model33. ClickOnce Deployment
ASIN : 1430272058
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781430272052
Edition : 3rd
Feature : New
ISBN : 1430272058
Label : APRESS ACADEMIC
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Manufacturer : APRESS ACADEMIC
Number of Pages : 1216
Publication Date : 31 Mar 2010
SKU : 9781430272052
Studio : APRESS ACADEMIC
