Programming WPF



Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (formerly known by its code name \"Avalon\") is a brand-new presentation framework for Windows XP and Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows client operating system. For developers, WPF is a cornucopia of new technologies, including a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more an XML-based markup language (XAML) for declaring the structure of your Windows UI and a radical new model for controls.







Programming Windows Presentation Foundation is the book you need to get up to speed on WPF. By page two, you ll have written your first WPF application, and by the end of Chapter 1, \"Hello WPF,\" you ll have completed a rapid tour of the framework and its major elements. These include the XAML markup language and the mapping of XAML markup to WinFX code the WPF content model layout controls, styles, and templates graphics and animation and, finally, deployment.