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Windows® Presentation Foundation Unleashed
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Windows® Presentation Foundation Unleashed

by Adam Nathan, Daniel Lehenbauer - Lead Developer Responsible for WPF 3D
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
17h 32m
English
Sams
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book?

Software Requirements

Code Examples

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Background

Part II: Building a WPF Application

Part III: Features for Professional Developers

Part IV: Going Beyond Today’s Applications with Rich Media

Part V: Advanced Topics

Conventions Used in This Book

Part I: Background

1. Why Windows Presentation Foundation?

A Look at the Past

Enter WPF

Part of the .NET Framework

Designed for Managed Code

Emphasis on Declarative Descriptions

Conclusion

2. XAML Demystified

XAML Defined

Elements and Attributes

Namespaces

Property Elements

Type Converters

Markup Extensions

Children of Object Elements

The Content Property

Collection Items

More Type Conversion

Compilation: Mixing ...

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