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

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating user interfaces in .NET applications - whether you're creating traditional user interfaces or integrating 3D graphics, multimedia, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more. It is also a superset of Silverlight, so you can leverage the same knowledge, code, and tools even when targeting cross-platform, cross-device applications inside or outside a Web browser.

The first edition of Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed was not only the best selling book on WPF 3.5, but was also commonly acclaimed as the best book on the subject. It was widely praised for the clarity of the writing, the thoroughness of the coverage, the practicality of the examples, and the sophistication of its form and style. This new edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors, while adding information on the many new features in WPF 4.5.

Zusammenfassung
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

Inhalt
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 …