WPF Books
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Accelerated Silverlight 2
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Jeff Scanlon, Apress
Accelerated Silverlight 2 will get you up to speed with the latest version of Silverlight quickly and efficiently. Author Jeff Scanlon assumes you’re already comfortable with the basics of .NET coding and with WPF, and they help you build on your existing knowledge to make your journey to Silverlight 2 proficiency as quick and painless as possible.
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Foundations of WPF: An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation
Published 14 years ago includes sample chapter
by Laurence Moroney, Apress
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.
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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Laurence Moroney, Apress
Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.
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Expert C# Business Objects (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
Published 16 years ago
by Rockford Lhotka, Apress
This book is a translation of Rockford Lhotka's industry-standard title Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects into C# language. Lhotka's ideas remain extremely influential in .NET development, and this book translates those ideas directly to you, the C# programmer.
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Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Matthew MacDonald, Apress
Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect reference: you’ll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you’ll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next–generation Windows applications.
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IronRuby Unleashed
Published 11 years ago
by Shay Friedman, Sams Publishing
Ruby has built an enormous following of developers attracted by its intuitiveness, flexibility, and simplicity. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s .NET has grown and matured into a platform of unparalleled power. IronRuby brings them together, enabling developers to write elegant, efficient Ruby code that seamlessly integrates with .NET objects and leverages .NET’s full capabilities.
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WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Sam Bourton, Allen Jones, Sam Noble, Apress
WPF offers amazing new opportunities to .NET programmers in terms of the user interfaces they can deliver to their customers. But this significant technological advance comes with a steep learning curve, requiring the programmer to learn new classes, new syntax, and an entirely new approach to UI development.
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Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Andrew Troelsen, Apress
The first edition of this book was released at the 2001 Tech Ed conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Since that time, this text has been revised, tweaked, and enhanced to account for the changes found within each release of the .NET platform (1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and now 3.5). The last version, .NET 3.0, was more of an augmentative release, essentially providing three new APIs: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF
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The Zen of XAML: Designer and Developer Collaboration in WPF and Silverlight
Published 11 years ago
by Robby Ingebretsen, Sams
With XAML, Silverlight, and the Expression suite of web development software, Microsoft has provided all the tools that designers, developers, and managers need to collaborate on creating breakthrough user experiences. However, designers and developers have traditionally found it difficult to collaborate, and the mere presence of the tools doesn't solve that problem. There's been a growing clamor for reliable, practical information on making this collaboration work in real enterprises.
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Pro WPF with C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 3.5
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Matthew MacDonald, Apress
The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high–quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs. Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF really works. His no–nonsense, practical advice will get you building high–quality WPF applications quickly and easily.
