WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008

List of Figures

Chapter 1. The road to Avalon (WPF)

Figure 1.1. Although Windows 3.x came out more than 15 years ago, it has an influence on the UIs of today.

Figure 1.2. To have a control change state, you have to force it to redraw itself, as with these buttons shown before and during a click.

Figure 1.3. The set of available native controls in HTML is limited. This image shows most of them.

Figure 1.4. Most applications don’t handle DPI changes elegantly. These are Windows programs running at a higher DPI, with various poor side effects. Vista handles higher DPI settings better than XP but still has issues; for example, old toolbars tend to be tiny.

Figure 1.5. Which one requires an artist? Users have a much greater expectation for pretty ...