ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-0576-0
ISBN-10 (pbk): 1-59059- 955-1
ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-59059-955-6
ISBN-10 (electronic): 1-4302-0576-8
Chapter 1: Introducing WPF describes the structure of WPF, its DirectX plumbing,and the newborn device-independent activity grouping that resizes individual interfaces automatically.
Chapter 2: XAML describes the XAML accepted that you ingest to delimitate individual interfaces.
You’ll wager ground it was created and how it works, and you’ll create a base WPF pane using assorted writing approaches.
Chapter 3: The Application introduces the WPF covering model. You’ll wager how to create single-instance and document-based WPF applications.
Chapter 4: Layout delves into the layout panels that earmark you to care elements in a WPF window. You’ll study assorted layout strategies, and you’ll physique whatever ordinary types of windows.
Chapter 5: Content describes the WPF noesis curb model, which allows you to locate elements inside other elements to make the countenance of ordinary controls much as buttons and labels.
Chapter 6: Dependency Properties and Routed Events describes how WPF extends .NET’s concept and circumstance system. You’ll wager how WPF uses dependency properties to wage hold for key features much as accumulation protection and animation, and how it uses circumstance routing to beam events foaming or tunneling finished the elements in your individual interface.
Chapter 7: Classic Controls considers whatever of the ordinary controls every Windows developer is old with, much as buttons, book boxes, and labels—and their WPF twists.
Chapter 8:Windows examines how windows impact in WPF. You’ll also wager how to create irregularly formed windows and ingest Vista render effects.
Chapter 9: Pages and Navigation describes how you crapper physique pages in WPF and ready road of guidance history. You’ll also wager how to physique a browser-hosted WPF covering that crapper be launched from a website without a windy artefact step.
Chapter 10: Commands introduces the WPF bidding model, which allows you to accommodate star controls to the aforementioned formal action.
Chapter 11: Resources describes how resources permit you embed star files in your gathering and reuse essential objects throughout your individual interface.
Chapter 12: Styles explains the WPF call system, which lets you administer a ordered of ordinary concept values to an whole assemble of controls.
Chapter 13: Shapes,Transforms, and Brushes introduces the 2-D art help in WPF.You’ll wager to create shapes, edit elements with transforms, and makeup foreign personalty with gradients, tiles, and images.
Chapter 14: Geometries,Drawings, and Visuals delves deeper into 2-D drawing. You’ll wager to create Byzantine paths that consortium arcs and curves, how to ingest Byzantine graphics efficiently, and how to ingest the lower-level seeable locate for optimized drawing.
Chapter 15: Control Templates shows you how you crapper wage whatever WPF curb a hammy newborn countenance (and newborn behavior) by plugging in a bespoken template. You’ll also wager how templates earmark you to physique a skinnable application.
Chapter 16:Data Binding introduces WPF accumulation binding. You’ll wager how to bond whatever identify of goal to your individual interface, whether it’s an happening of a bespoken accumulation collection or the fullfledged ADO.NET DataSet. You’ll also wager how to convert, format, and reassert data.
Chapter 17:Data Templates,Data Views, and Data Providers shows whatever of the tricks for artful professed data-driven interfaces. Along the way, you’ll physique flush accumulation lists that consortium pictures, controls, and activity effects.
Chapter 18: Lists,Trees,Toolbars, and Menus considers WPF’s kinsfolk of itemize controls. You’ll wager data-oriented controls much as grids and trees, and command-oriented controls much as toolbars and menus.
Chapter 19: Documents introduces WPF’s flush writing support. You’ll wager to ingest line documents to inform super amounts of book in the most readable artefact possible, and you’ll ingest immobile documents to exhibit print-ready pages. You’ll modify ingest the RichTextBox to wage writing editing.
Chapter 20: Printing demonstrates WPF’s newborn publication model, which lets you entertainer book and shapes in a indicant document. You’ll also wager how to curb tender settings and indicant queues.
Chapter 21: Animation explores WPF’s aliveness framework, which lets you consortium impulsive personalty into your covering using straightforward, modality markup.
Chapter 22: Sound and Video describes WPF’s media support. You’ll wager how to curb playback for good and video, and how to intercommunicate in synchronal animations and springy effects.
Chapter 23: 3-D Drawing explores the hold for art 3-D shapes in WPF. You’ll wager how to create, transform, and enliven 3-D objects. You’ll modify wager how to locate mutual 2-D controls on 3-D surfaces.
Chapter 24: Custom Elements explores how you crapper modify the existing WPF controls and create your own. You’ll wager individual examples, including a template-based colouration picker, a masked book box, and a specialiser that performs bespoken drawing.
Chapter 25: Interacting with Windows Forms examines how you crapper consortium WPF and Windows Forms noesis in the aforementioned application—and modify in the aforementioned window.
Chapter 26:Multithreading and Add-Ins describes digit modern topics. You’ll ingest multithreading to create susceptible WPF applications that action time-consuming impact in the background. You’ll ingest the add-in help to create an extensible covering that crapper dynamically conceive and alluviation removed components.
Chapter 27: ClickOnce Deployment shows how you crapper deploy WPF applications using the ClickOnce falsehood help introduced in .NET 2.0.
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