作者：Matthew MacDonald
出版日期：March 24, 2008
出版社：Apress
页数：1000
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1590599624 ISBN-13: 978-1590599624
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundationfor building applications and high–quality user experiences in WindowsVista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and mediacontent to provide richer control, design, and development of thevisual aspects of Windows programs.
Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF reallyworks. His no–nonsense, practical advice will get you buildinghigh–quality WPF applications quickly and easily. MacDonald will takeyou through a thorough investigation of the more advanced aspects ofWPF, and its relation to other elements of the WinFX stack and the .NETFramework 3.5, to complete your understanding of WPF and VB 2008.
WPF’s functionality extends to support for Tablet PCs and otherforms of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printingpipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data–drivenUI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving theapplication experience into the Windows shell.
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 is this book for?Developers encountering WPF and .NET 3.5 for the first time in their professional lives.
About the Apress Pro SeriesThe Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.
You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in thesetough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills andexpertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Probook, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professionaldevelopment project. Written by experts in their field, Pro seriesbooks from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you willface in your professional programming career.
About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has apassion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developerjournals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he’s the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications.In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature andtheoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, andeverything in between, to [email protected].