Foundations of WPF: An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation

by Laurence Moroney

Overview

Windows Presentation Foundation is a cutting-edge presentation framework for creating high-fidelity applications for Windows Vista and Windows XP. WPF is a composite technology with a noteworthy graphics engine that gives you more control over your applications screen output than has ever been possible in Windows before. New control frameworks and a new XML-based markup language, XAML, complete the core WPF package. On top of this, WPF can be linked to the new Microsoft Expression Suite to simplify the creation of your user interfaces, and it can be linked to .NET 2.0 to handle complex business logic.

Foundations of WPF: An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation teaches you everything you need to get started with the technology, and is broken into three parts. The first introduces and contextualizes the WPF technology; the second part dives deeper into the facets of the technology that are of immediate and valuable use in developing applications; the last part offers you the real-world perspective you need to be productive in the community and customer base. In summary, this book:

• Explains how WPF interoperates with myriad new ancillary and support technologies being released by Microsoft (XAML, WCF, WinFX, and the Expression Design Suite)
• Gets you up and running, building applications for the new Windows “Vista” as quickly as possible
• Separates design and implementation to make life easier from a business and development perspective

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590597606
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/21/2006
Series:	Expert's Voice In . Net Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Laurence Moroney is the director of technology evangelism at Mainsoft, the cross-platform development company. He has over 10 years in software development and architecture, specializing in interoperability, security and performance in such diverse industries as casinos, jails, the U.S. Border Patrol, airports, professional soccer teams and financial services. He has written several books on computing, including some on Web Services Security, ASP.NET and Java/.NET interoperability, as well as dozens of articles on various technology issues. He lives in Sammamish, Washington with his wife, Rebecca, and children, Claudia and Christopher. His blog is at Philotic.com, where you can find lots of Atlas and other development resources.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to Avalon: Putting Presentation into Perspective: What is WPF.- Application architecture using WPF.- Your first WPF Application.- Building a Connected Application.- Part 2: Foundations of Avalon: Exploring the Technology: Exploring the Layout Controls.- Data Binding.- Graphics and Media.- Animation.- Part 3: Real-World Avalon: Taking your Presentation Foundation applications to your customers: Deployment.- Windows Vista and WPF.