Introducing WPF: Chapter 1 of Essential Windows Presentation Foundation

Essential Windows Presentation Foundation is written by Chris Anderson, who is a former WPF architect. Anderson covers several topics of interest for developers using WPF -- data access, controls design, the use of rich media and XAML, the Extensible Application Markup language.

Chapter 1, Introduction, provides a high-level overview of Windows Presentation Foundation. Anderson describes some of the similarities between WPF programming and WinForms programming, looks at the visual effects possible with WPF and takes a quick peek at XAML. Anderson concludes by building a Window...

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s Presentation Foundation application in C#; there are plenty of code samples and screenshots along the way.

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