Pro WPF in C# 2008

　　Book Description
　　The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs.
　　Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF really wor... (展开全部) 　　Book Description
　　The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs.
　　Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF really works. His no–nonsense, practical advice will get you building high–quality WPF applications quickly and easily. MacDonald will take you through a thorough investigation of the more advanced aspects of WPF, and its relation to other elements of the WinFX stack and the .NET Framework 3.5, to complete your understanding of WPF and C# 2008.
　　WPFs functionality extends to support for Tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data–driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.
　　What you’ll 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 is this book for?
　　Developers encountering WPF and .NET 3.5 for the first time in their professional lives　　

　　Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals 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 and theoretical physics.