Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer)

By Charles Petzold

Book Overview

Get the definitive guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the new client programming interface for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Vista. Award-winning author Charles Petzold teaches you how to combine C# code and the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to develop applications for the WPF. You'll get expert guidance and hundreds of practical, hands-on examples--giving you the skills you need to exploit the new interface and graphics capabilities for Windows Vista. Discover how to: Create and enhance controls including menus, toolbars, tree views, and list views Use dynamic layout to automate the positioning of controls and graphics Work with dependency properties and routed input events Use XAML resources, styles, and templates to alter the appearance of your UI Use data binding techniques in XAML to help simplify and streamline your applications Create and publish XAML Browser Applications Develop visually-stunning UIs with interactive graphics, media, and animation PLUS--Get code samples on the Web This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735619573
• ISBN13: 9780735619579
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1002 Pages
• Weight: 3.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

It May Not Be Pretty, But It's Pretty Good!

This book seems to have had several negative reviews. The gist of most people's complaints seem to be: (a) "There's no XAML until Chapter 19" and/or (b) "There aren't any pictures". The Complaints - are they justified? a. No XAML People making this complaint have in my opinion totally missed the point for several reasons. Firstly, this is not Charles Petzold's "How to Write XAML" book. It's a book whose...

I appreciate this book so much

I think that Petzold was reading my mind when he wrote this book. I don't like XML, and I don't like "cheating" with XAML when you can write good clean C#. The first half of this book is entirely C# programming in WPF. I am using this book to help me write an abstraction layer above WPF. That simply would not be possible with XAML, which in my opinion places the design of the application at too low of a level. Petzold leaves...

The Other Side of WPF

I purchased this book late last year, took a vacation and spent a week reading it cover to cover. Since that time I've written several production WPF applications of moderate complexity that are several generations beyond the WinForms and WebForms apps I had been writting. Several months ago, when it was released, I also got to read Adam Nathan's book on the topic of WPF. Having read both books and used WPF to produce better...

If you only get one WPF book, get this one

Disclaimer - I am one of the senior leads in WPF and helped answer a few questions for Charles (as I do for other writers, press, and developers), and I bought my own copy of this book. Windows Presentation Foundation sets a new baseline for an application development framework, not only for Windows development, but across the industry. Of note are the integration of UI, documents, and media functionality into a consistent...