If you want to build applications that take full
advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface
capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully
updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is
designed to get you up to speed on this technology
quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF
application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken
a complete tour of WPF and its major elements.WPF is the
new presentation framework for Windows Vista that also
works with Windows XP. It's a cornucopia of new
technologies, which includes a new graphics engine that
supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based
markup language, called XAML, for declaring the
structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model
for controls.This second edition includes new chapters
on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents,
along with a new appendix that covers Microsoft's new
WPF/E platform for delivering richer UI through standard
web browsers - much like Adobe Flash. Content from the
first edition has been significantly expanded and
modified.''Programming WPF'' includes: scores of C# and
XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF
application up and running, from a simple ''Hello,
Avalon'' program to a tic-tac-toe game; insightful
discussions of the powerful new programming styles that
WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new
model for controls; a color insert to better illustrate
WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects;
a tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language
for declaring Windows UI; and, an explanation and
comparison of the features that support interoperability
with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy
applications. WPF represents the best of the
control-based Windows world and the content-based web
world. ''Programming WPF'' helps you bring it all
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