WPF 4.5 Unleashed

The #1 WPF Book--Now Updated for WPF 4.5!
Thorough, authoritative coverage, practical examples, clear writing, and full-color presentation make this one of the most widely acclaimed programming books of the last decade.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating modern Windows desktop apps. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, touch, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner that scales from small tablets to large TVs. WPF 4.5 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by WPF guru and Microsoft architect Adam Nathan.

• Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
• Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more
• Delves into topics that aren t covered by most books: 3D, speech, audio/video, documents, effects
• Shows how to create popular UI elements and leverage built-in controls such as the new Office-style Ribbon
• Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes
• Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF
• Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, DirectX, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies
• Explains how to exploit desktop features, such as Jump Lists and taskbar customizations, and the same toast notifications used by Windows Store apps

List of contents

Introduction     1
Who Should Read This Book?      2
Software Requirements     3
Code Examples     3
How This Book Is Organized     4
Conventions Used in This Book     6

Part I: Background
Chapter 1: Why WPF?      7
A Look at the Past      8
Enter WPF     9
The Evolution of WPF     12
Summary     16
Chapter 2: XAML Demystified     17
XAML Defined     19
Elements and Attributes     20
Namespaces     22
Property Elements     25
Type Converters     26
Markup Extensions      28
Children of Object Elements     31
Mixing XAML with Procedural Code     36
XAML2009     44
XAML Keywords     49
Summary     52
Chapter 3: WPF Fundamentals     55
A Tour of the Class Hierarchy      55
Logical and Visual Trees     57
Dependency Properties      62
Summary     76

Part II: Building a WPF Application
Chapter 4: Sizing, Positioning, and Transforming Elements     77
Controlling Size     78
Controlling Position     83
Applying Transforms     86
Summary     95
Chapter 5: Layout with Panels     97
Canvas     98
StackPanel     100
WrapPanel     102
DockPanel     105
Grid     108
Primitive Panels     120
Handling Content Overflow     122
Putting It All Together: Creating a Visual Studio-Like Collapsible, Dockable, Resizable Pane     130
Summary     140
Chapter 6: Input Events: Keyboard, Mouse, Stylus, and Touch     141
Routed Events     141
Keyboard Events     150
Mouse Events     152
Stylus Events     156
Touch Events     158
Commands     170
Summary     176
Chapter 7: Structuring and Deploying an Application     177
Standard Desktop Applications     177
Navigation-Based Desktop Applications     193
Gadget-Style Applications     205
XAML Browser Applications     207
Loose XAML Pages     213
Summary     215
Chapter 8: Exploiting Windows Desktop Features     217
Jump Lists     217
Taskbar Item Customizations     229
Aero Glass     233
TaskDialog     236
Summary     239

Part III: Controls
Chapter 9: Content Controls     241
Buttons     243
Simple Containers     248
Containers with Headers     252
Summary     254
Chapter 10: Items Controls     255
Common Functionality     256
Selectors     261
Menus     298
Other Items Controls     302
Summary   &

About the author

Adam Nathan is a principal software architect for Microsoft in the Startup Business Group. Adam was previously the founding developer and architect for Popfly, Microsoft's first product built on Silverlight, named one of the 25 most innovative products of 2007 by PCWorld Magazine. Having started his career on Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime team, Adam has been at the core of .NET and WPF technologies since the very beginning.

Adam’s books have been considered required reading by many inside Microsoft and throughout the industry. He is the author of the best-selling WPF Unleashed (Sams, 2006) that was nominated for a 2008 Jolt Award, WPF 4 Unleashed (Sams, 2010), Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed (Sams, 2012), 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps (Sams, 2011), Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed (Sams, 2008), and .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide (Sams, 2002); a coauthor of ASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams, 2001); and a contributor to books including .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2 (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Windows Developer Power Tools (O’Reilly, 2006). Adam is also the creator of PINVOKE.NET and its Visual Studio add-in. You can find him online at www.adamnathan.net or @adamnathan on Twitter.

Summary

The #1 WPF Book--Now Updated for WPF 4.5!
Thorough, authoritative coverage, practical examples, clear writing, and full-color presentation make this one of the most widely acclaimed programming books of the last decade.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating modern Windows desktop apps. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, touch, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner that scales from small tablets to large TVs. WPF 4.5 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by WPF guru and Microsoft architect Adam Nathan.

• Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
• Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more
• Delves into topics that aren’t covered by most books: 3D, speech, audio/video, documents, effects
• Shows how to create popular UI elements and leverage built-in controls such as the new Office-style Ribbon
• Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes
• Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF
• Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, DirectX, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies
• Explains how to exploit desktop features, such as Jump Lists and taskbar customizations, and the same toast notifications used by Windows Store apps

Product details

• Authors: Adam Nathan
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2017
• EAN: 9780672336973
• ISBN: 978-0-672-33697-3
• No. of pages: 864
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 232 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 1233 g
• Illustrations: w. col. figs.
• Series: Sams; Sams; Unleashed
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT