Illustrated WPF

ISBN-13: 9781430219101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 550 str.

Daniel M. Solis

Opis

With WPF, Microsoft started from scratch and built a UI framework that is more logical, powerful, and integrated than previous frameworks. But it's different from previous frameworks, and you need to understand its structure and paradigms to use it effectively. One of the reasons WPF has a reputation of having a steep and extensive learning curve is that we, as programmers, think that all UI frameworks are pretty much the same, just with different API classes, methods, and parameters. In the case of WPF, however, this definitely is not case. The result is that when programmers just jump from another framework to WPF without learning the basics, they're frustrated that everything seems so different. The purpose of this book is to teach you the fundamentals and mechanics of WPF programming as quickly and simply as possible, while giving you a firm grasp of what's actually going on under the covers. To do this, I've used a combination of text, figures, bulleted lists, and tables. Many of us think visually. To us, figures, bulleted lists, and tables help clarify and crystallize our understanding of a concept by cutting through the clutter of pages of dense paragraphs of explanation. My experience was repeatedly confirmed, when, in several years of teaching programming, I found that the pictures I drew on the whiteboard were the things that most quickly helped students understand the concepts I was trying to convey.

Spis treści

1. Introduction To Windows Presentation Foundation
2. Overview Of WPF Programming
3. WPF Architecture And Applications
4. XAML
5. Layout
6. Content And Controls
7. Dependency Properties
8. Data Binding
9. Routing Events And Commands
10. Other Controls And Elements
11. Resources
12. Styles
13. Control Templates
14. Page Navigation Programs
15. More Data Binding
16. Trees, Tabs, And Other Controls
17. Text And Documents
18. Graphics In WPF
19. Animation
20. Audio And Video

O autorze

Daniel Solis is a contract software engineer who has worked for a number of high-profile clients, including Microsoft Consulting Services, IBM, Lockheed Martin, and PeopleSoft. He has been programming and teaching object-oriented languages and development methods throughout the U.S. and Europe since the early days of C++. It was while teaching numerous seminars on various programming languages that he realized the immense power of diagrams in explaining programming language concepts.