Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.0

Description

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii Introducing WPF....Pages 1-22 XAML....Pages 23-60 Layout....Pages 61-104 Dependency Properties....Pages 105-118 Routed Events....Pages 119-157 Controls....Pages 159-213 The Application....Pages 215-248 Element Binding....Pages 249-264 Commands....Pages 265-291 Resources....Pages 293-307 Styles and Behaviors....Pages 309-331 Shapes, Brushes, and Transforms....Pages 333-374 Geometries and Drawings....Pages 375-398 Effects and Visuals....Pages 399-422 Animation Basics....Pages 423-465 Advanced Animation....Pages 467-498 Control Templates....Pages 499-542 Custom Elements....Pages 543-597 Data Binding....Pages 599-642 Formatting Bound Data....Pages 643-689 Data Views....Pages 691-707 Lists, Grids, and Trees....Pages 709-749 Windows....Pages 751-790 Pages and Navigation....Pages 791-840 Menus, Toolbars, and Ribbons....Pages 841-864 Sound and Video....Pages 865-888 3-D Drawing....Pages 889-933 Documents....Pages 935-987 Printing....Pages 989-1018 Interacting with Windows Forms....Pages 1019-1040 Multithreading....Pages 1041-1054 The Add-in Model....Pages 1055-1077 ClickOnce Deployment....Pages 1079-1097 Back Matter....Pages 1099-1181