Windows® Presentation Foundation Unleashed

Introduction

Thank you for picking up Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed! To avoid unsatisfied customers, I want to clarify that this is not a book about Microsoft PowerPoint (which many people consider to be the foundation of Windows presentations)! Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is Microsoft’s latest technology for creating graphical user interfaces, whether they consist of plain forms, document-centric windows, animated cartoons, videos, immersive 3D environments, or all of the above! This is a technology that makes it easier than ever to create a broad range of applications. For example, WPF makes it relatively straightforward to implement applications similar to Windows Media Player, Microsoft Word (or at least WordPad), and, ...