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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition
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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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How This Book Is Organized

Here's what each chapter of this book will cover:

Chapter 1

This chapter introduces the basics of WPF. It then provides a whirlwind tour of the features that we will cover in the following chapters, so you can see how everything fits together before we delve into the details.

Chapter 2

In this chapter, we show how WPF manages application-wide concerns, such as the lifetime of your process, keeping track of open windows, and storing application-wide states and settings. We also show your options for deploying applications to end users' machines using ClickOnce.

Chapter 3

WPF provides a powerful set of tools for managing the visual layout of your applications. This chapter shows how to use this toolkit, and how to extend it.

Chapter 4

This chapter shows how to make your WPF application respond to user input. We illustrate low-level input event handling, and the higher-level command system.

Chapter 5

Controls are the building blocks of a user interface. This chapter describes the controls built into the WPF framework.

Chapter 6

All applications need to present information to the user. This chapter shows how to use WPF's data binding features to connect the user interface to your underlying data.

Chapter 7

This chapter builds on the preceding one, showing how data binding works with lists of items. It also shows how to bind to hierarchical data.

Chapter 8

WPF's styling mechanism provides a powerful way to control your application's appearance while ensuring its consistency. ...

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