Illustrated WPF

by Daniel Solis

Windows Presentation Foundation is Microsoft’s newest API for creating Windows applications. It gives the programmer the ability to produce dazzling, graphics–rich programs easily without having to delve into the messy details of the graphics subsystem.

To use this power, however, the programmer must learn new concepts for laying out pages and displaying graphics. Illustrated WPF presents these concepts clearly and visually—making them easier to understand and retain.

What you’ll learn The important new concepts underlying programming in WPF, including the visual tree, the logical tree, dependency properties, and routed events. The XAML markup language and how it is used to create and initialize objects in WPF. You’ll also learn how XAML and C# code work together to producing stunning programs. How to lay out screens and graphics using WPF’s various panel types, and how to achieve a consistent visual appearance throughout a program, using resources, styles, and templates. How to bind visual elements to data sources. How to perform graphics transformations to produce eye–catching displays, and how to use animation to produce pages that are alive with action. How to use the WPF document types for text layout and navigation.
Who is this book for

This book is for C# programmers wanting to learn to program Microsoft’s latest method of building stunning Windows programs—Windows Presentation Foundation. They could be web programmers familiar with ASP.NET or programmers coming from Windows Forms. This book is designed for those who want a concise but thorough, visual presentation of the platform. It is not for those who want a long, leisurely, verbose explanation of the platform.

507 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2009

About the author

Dan Solis has enjoyed coding and teaching programming for more years than he cares to admit. His undergraduate majors were Biology and English, and he holds a Master's degree in Computer Science.

His first job out of college was working in a physical chemistry research lab, but he soon realized he preferred programming to performing research.

As a contract software engineer he has worked for a number of high-profile clients, including Microsoft Consulting Services, IBM, Lockheed Martin, and PeopleSoft. He has been programming and teaching object oriented languages and development methods throughout the US and Europe since the early days of C++. It was while teaching numerous seminars on various programming languages that he realized the immense power of diagrams, in explaining programming language concepts.

Reviews

[Gabrielam13 · Rating 5 out of 5]

O foarte bună introducere în WPF Mi-a plăcut foarte mult pentru că, dincolo de faptul că e bine structurată, iar explicațiile sunt foarte clare, are și outputul acela vizual pentru fiecare capitol care te ajută să înțelegi legătura dintre cod și ceea ce acesta produce. Mi-a plăcut cu atât mai mult cu cât stilul meu de învățare este unul vizual.

Cu toate că nu este exhaustivă, te ajută negreșit să îți clădești bazele wpf-ului.Pentru mine și-a dovedit de foarte multe ori utilitatea. În plus, stilul lui Solis m-a convins să îi citesc și varianta ilustrată pentru C#.

[Ahmed · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best way to start with WPF

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good starter book for wpf. Being a very visual person this book helped me a lot, I sometimes have a hard time getting through straight text books and I didn't have that problem with this book.