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Windows Professional Foundation (WPF) offers amazing 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 user interface development.
Although WPF has been generally available since 2008, commercial take-up has been relatively slow, and the publicly available body of knowledge has been weak in terms of real-world examples and best-practice information.
Using WPF Recipes in C# 2008, you'll find a simple and straightforward approach to solving the problems you face every day. Each solution contains a complete, working example that demonstrates how to make the best use of WPF. You can use the example as a template to solve your own problem or as a base on which to build a solution tailored to your specific needs.
Packed with well-structured and documented solutions to a broad range of common WPF problems, this book, will be a valuable addition to any C# programmer's reference library. Examples included provide you with a rich source of information as you begin to learn and will be an invaluable quick-reference guide once you're a proficient WPF programmer.
The emphasis on solving the day-to-day WPF problems that all programmers face frees you from needing to trawl through weighty programming tomes or sift through API documentation, allowing you to focus on the more interesting and innovative aspects of your project.
About the author
Allen Jones is a Director of Principal Objective Ltd., a UK-based consultancy that provides independent IT strategy and solutions architecture services. Allen has more than 15 years of commercial experience, covering almost every aspect of IT; however, his true passion has been and always will be software development. In his spare time, Allen works writing books and training material or studies in an effort to find some form of enlightenment that has so far eluded him.
Summary
WPF Recipes in C# 2008 provides readers with everything they need to start coding successfully with WPF and .NET 3.5. The lead author, Allen Jones, has drawn on his years of experience in the software industry coupled with the understanding that comes from creating previous successful Recipe books (for both C# and VB 2005) to design a wide selection of ready-to-run code examples that will help readers get to grips with WPF quickly, illustrate lesser known techniques clearly, and help readers overcome the common pitfalls that beset all programmers when they begin to learn a new language.
