Programming WPF: Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

Well, not quite but it is the very best book on WPF that I have read (and I have read a few now, Charles P (x2 inc. his 3D book), Chris A and Adam N). I have read much of Chris Sells work over my many years working with software and I truely love his writing style and delivery. His partnership with Ian Griffiths on this is book has worked out wonderfully and the book is a sublime read from beginning to end because of it.

I love working with WPF and this book has been, and continues to be, the perfect guide.

Excellent reference on programming Windows Presentation Foundation! (0/0 people found this helpful)

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation is very excellent book, ideal for all developers who's interesting building rich and digital applications with new Microsoft technology

for creating visual experiences. This is good book for everything from developers without programming experience on WPF and for experts in this topic. Book contains many

interesting chapters with introduction to all topics, examples and some advanced topics to enable developers to create better WPF application.

If you are interesting working with Windows Presentation Foundation, you must learn this technology from this book! In second edition, writers add to book several interesting

themes, from XPS and printing technology to navigation, and 3D creating. It's amazing how many features have a developers and designer to create layout, realize dreams and

potential. When Microsoft published WPF millions developers around a world get a platform with big potential.

In book You are find:
- Introduction to WPF technology and create first application with XAML language.
- Design modern and high-quality layout for Yours application.
- Connected with Data, binding controls and create rich advanced data applications.
- Graphics and 3D support.
- Printing technology and using XPS.
- Animation and Media in WPF application.

Building rich and friendly applications is very hard, but this is not usual book, this is full professional support for all people who's thinking about create own application on WPF.

Everything a technical primer should be. Brilliant! (1/1 people found this helpful)

I've read hundreds of technical books; this is one of the best. Period, and without exaggeration.

Sells and Griffiths combine phenomenal insight into the technology with years of practical application and an extraordinary ability to convey highly technical material in a way that is clear, concise and coherent. I wish I knew as much as they, or wrote as well; and that is not false modesty: they are the gold standard.

The second edition builds on the foundations they laid in the first, but goes well beyond. If you bought the first edition do not hesitate to buy the second; it not only updates the material, but adds at least half again as much new information and greatly expands on the insights they have to offer.

There are other books on WPF well worth owning, but this book is absolutely mandatory. If you have only enough money for one, this is the one. If you can't afford this one, then give up Starbucks and start drinking Dunkin'... 'cause you have to have this one.

On a personal note, Ian has tech-reviewed one of my books, and I can personally attest to the depth and breadth and comprehensiveness of his knowledge. He knows whereof he speaks; and I've yet to find a single instance where his understanding was shallow, let alone wrong. He brings a rigor to his writing that is not marred by pedanticism, and together, he and Chris Sells have managed that most difficult of feats: a two-author book that speaks with a single, clear voice that leaves you with few questions.

This is a six-star book; don't hesitate. In fact, stop reading my silly review and buy the book.

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An indispensable Learning and Reference Work (2/3 people found this helpful)

Despite the fact that Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon) is beta-ware and therefore still very much a moving target, this book is invaluable for getting to grips with programming in XAML.

It systematically works its way through getting started, styling, templating and data-binding, animation and graphics and more, with worked examples & downloadable code (including updates to reflect later changes in the WPF sepcification).

It is probably the first major work on WPF, but as others emerge they will have a hard time matching it for clarity and structure. WPF is destined to be a BIG area of future Windows development and there is much more to be written on the individual aspects of the subject, but I'm willing to bet that this book (and the scheduled revised version due for the final release of WPF) will be the seminal work that others will be compared against.

An indispensable Learning and Reference Work (4/6 people found this helpful)

Despite the fact that Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon) is beta-ware and therefore still very much a moving target, this book is invaluable for getting to grips with programming in XAML.

Programming WPF: Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths

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