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Illustrated WPF
Publisher: Apress - November 01, 2009 ISBN-10: 1430219106, ISBN-13: 9781430219101
Author: Daniel Solis
550 pages
Illustrated WPF - book reviews: 44
Windows Presentation Foundation is Microsoft’s newest API for creating Windows applications. It gives the programmer the ability to produce dazzling, graphics–rich programs easily without having to delve into the messy details of the graphics subsystem.
To use this power, however, the programmer must learn new concepts for laying out pages and displaying graphics. Illustrated WPF presents these concepts clearly and visually—making them easier to understand and retain.
What you’ll learn
- The important new concepts underlying programming in WPF, including the visual tree, the logical tree, dependency properties, and routed events.
- The XAML markup language and how it is used to create and initialize objects in WPF. You’ll also learn how XAML and C# code work together to producing stunning programs.
- How to lay out screens and graphics using WPF’s various panel types, and how to achieve a consistent visual appearance throughout a program, using resources, styles, and templates.
- How to bind visual elements to data sources.
- How to perform graphics transformations to produce eye–catching displays, and how to use animation to produce pages that are alive with action.
- How to use the WPF document types for text layout and navigation.
Who is this book for
This book is for C# programmers wanting to learn to program Microsoft’s latest method of building stunning Windows programs—Windows Presentation Foundation. They could be web programmers familiar with ASP.NET or programmers coming from Windows Forms. This book is designed for those who want a concise but thorough, visual presentation of the platform. It is not for those who want a long, leisurely, verbose explanation of the platform.
One Good Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If you are a WPF architect, programmer or serious WPF student, you must get a copy of "Illustrated WPF" by Dan Solis. Solis has an uncanny ability to combine figures/diagrams with a few concise paragraphs to visually show how WPF actually works. It's like having a WPF guru explain WPF by drawing little pictures on a white board while she talks.
This book is well-suited for students learning WPF or experienced WPF programmers who need a quick refresher of key WPF concepts. The code samples are short and to the point. It does not have complicated samples which are found in many other WPF books.
Other WPF books typically describe a concept in text and then illustrate that concept using code samples and screen shots. The reader is left to translate the text into a mental image which he needs to really understand the concept. This is a significant obstacle for people trying to learn WPF. Solis literally draws you the "big picture" and shows you how the WPF pieces fit together visually. This is particularly evident in Solis's explanation of dependency properties and WPF commands, which are missing, glossed over or undecipherable in other books.
This book is an ideal complement to Microsoft's online documentation and other reference manuals. I use Solis's illustrations to trace what the documentation is trying to say. I've had a number of "ah-ha, I now see what that means" moments while studying the illustrations.
I often download code samples to see how other programmers have implemented a particular WPF feature. Samples from Microsoft tech evangelists or WPF Disciples are among my favorites. Unfortunately, samples by experts frequently have a snippet or two of arcane WPF usage, such as data binding, templates or animation in Xaml. Solis's book has helped me quickly unravel those code snippets without plowing through a whole chapter of another book.
Finally, if you liked Solis's "Illustrated C# 2008 (Windows.Net)" book you will definitely see that "Illustrated WPF" has the same approach and high value. I highly recommend both of them.
Evan Lim
10 December, 2009
One Good Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If you are a WPF architect, programmer or serious WPF student, you must get a copy of "Illustrated WPF" by Dan Solis. Solis has an uncanny ability to combine figures/diagrams with a few concise paragraphs to visually show how WPF actually works. It's like having a WPF guru explain WPF by drawing little pictures on a white board while she talks.
This book is well-suited for students learning WPF or experienced WPF programmers who need a quick refresher of key WPF concepts. The code samples are short and to the point. It does not have complicated samples which are found in many other WPF books.
Other WPF books typically describe a concept in text and then illustrate that concept using code samples and screen shots. The reader is left to translate the text into a mental image which he needs to really understand the concept. This is a significant obstacle for people trying to learn WPF. Solis literally draws you the "big picture" and shows you how the WPF pieces fit together visually. This is particularly evident in Solis's explanation of dependency properties and WPF commands, which are missing, glossed over or undecipherable in other books.
This book is an ideal complement to Microsoft's online documentation and other reference manuals. I use Solis's illustrations to trace what the documentation is trying to say. I've had a number of "ah-ha, I now see what that means" moments while studying the illustrations.
I often download code samples to see how other programmers have implemented a particular WPF feature. Samples from Microsoft tech evangelists or WPF Disciples are among my favorites. Unfortunately, samples by experts frequently have a snippet or two of arcane WPF usage, such as data binding, templates or animation in Xaml. Solis's book has helped me quickly unravel those code snippets without plowing through a whole chapter of another book.
Finally, if you liked Solis's "Illustrated C# 2008 (Windows.Net)" book you will definitely see that "Illustrated WPF" has the same approach and high value. I highly recommend both of them.
Evan Lim
10 December, 2009
One Good Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If you are a WPF architect, programmer or serious WPF student, you must get a copy of "Illustrated WPF" by Dan Solis. Solis has an uncanny ability to combine figures/diagrams with a few concise paragraphs to visually show how WPF actually works. It's like having a WPF guru explain WPF by drawing little pictures on a white board while she talks.
This book is well-suited for students learning WPF or experienced WPF programmers who need a quick refresher of key WPF concepts. The code samples are short and to the point. It does not have complicated samples which are found in many other WPF books.
Other WPF books typically describe a concept in text and then illustrate that concept using code samples and screen shots. The reader is left to translate the text into a mental image which he needs to really understand the concept. This is a significant obstacle for people trying to learn WPF. Solis literally draws you the "big picture" and shows you how the WPF pieces fit together visually. This is particularly evident in Solis's explanation of dependency properties and WPF commands, which are missing, glossed over or undecipherable in other books.
This book is an ideal complement to Microsoft's online documentation and other reference manuals. I use Solis's illustrations to trace what the documentation is trying to say. I've had a number of "ah-ha, I now see what that means" moments while studying the illustrations.
I often download code samples to see how other programmers have implemented a particular WPF feature. Samples from Microsoft tech evangelists or WPF Disciples are among my favorites. Unfortunately, samples by experts frequently have a snippet or two of arcane WPF usage, such as data binding, templates or animation in Xaml. Solis's book has helped me quickly unravel those code snippets without plowing through a whole chapter of another book.
Finally, if you liked Solis's "Illustrated C# 2008 (Windows.Net)" book you will definitely see that "Illustrated WPF" has the same approach and high value. I highly recommend both of them.
Evan Lim
10 December, 2009
One Good Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If you are a WPF architect, programmer or serious WPF student, you must get a copy of "Illustrated WPF" by Dan Solis. Solis has an uncanny ability to combine figures/diagrams with a few concise paragraphs to visually show how WPF actually works. It's like having a WPF guru explain WPF by drawing little pictures on a white board while she talks.
This book is well-suited for students learning WPF or experienced WPF programmers who need a quick refresher of key WPF concepts. The code samples are short and to the point. It does not have complicated samples which are found in many other WPF books.
Other WPF books typically describe a concept in text and then illustrate that concept using code samples and screen shots. The reader is left to translate the text into a mental image which he needs to really understand the concept. This is a significant obstacle for people trying to learn WPF. Solis literally draws you the "big picture" and shows you how the WPF pieces fit together visually. This is particularly evident in Solis's explanation of dependency properties and WPF commands, which are missing, glossed over or undecipherable in other books.
This book is an ideal complement to Microsoft's online documentation and other reference manuals. I use Solis's illustrations to trace what the documentation is trying to say. I've had a number of "ah-ha, I now see what that means" moments while studying the illustrations.
I often download code samples to see how other programmers have implemented a particular WPF feature. Samples from Microsoft tech evangelists or WPF Disciples are among my favorites. Unfortunately, samples by experts frequently have a snippet or two of arcane WPF usage, such as data binding, templates or animation in Xaml. Solis's book has helped me quickly unravel those code snippets without plowing through a whole chapter of another book.
Finally, if you liked Solis's "Illustrated C# 2008 (Windows.Net)" book you will definitely see that "Illustrated WPF" has the same approach and high value. I highly recommend both of them.
Evan Lim
10 December, 2009
One Good Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If you are a WPF architect, programmer or serious WPF student, you must get a copy of "Illustrated WPF" by Dan Solis. Solis has an uncanny ability to combine figures/diagrams with a few concise paragraphs to visually show how WPF actually works. It's like having a WPF guru explain WPF by drawing little pictures on a white board while she talks.
This book is well-suited for students learning WPF or experienced WPF programmers who need a quick refresher of key WPF concepts. The code samples are short and to the point. It does not have complicated samples which are found in many other WPF books.
Other WPF books typically describe a concept in text and then illustrate that concept using code samples and screen shots. The reader is left to translate the text into a mental image which he needs to really understand the concept. This is a significant obstacle for people trying to learn WPF. Solis literally draws you the "big picture" and shows you how the WPF pieces fit together visually. This is particularly evident in Solis's explanation of dependency properties and WPF commands, which are missing, glossed over or undecipherable in other books.
This book is an ideal complement to Microsoft's online documentation and other reference manuals. I use Solis's illustrations to trace what the documentation is trying to say. I've had a number of "ah-ha, I now see what that means" moments while studying the illustrations.
I often download code samples to see how other programmers have implemented a particular WPF feature. Samples from Microsoft tech evangelists or WPF Disciples are among my favorites. Unfortunately, samples by experts frequently have a snippet or two of arcane WPF usage, such as data binding, templates or animation in Xaml. Solis's book has helped me quickly unravel those code snippets without plowing through a whole chapter of another book.
Finally, if you liked Solis's "Illustrated C# 2008 (Windows.Net)" book you will definitely see that "Illustrated WPF" has the same approach and high value. I highly recommend both of them.
Evan Lim
10 December, 2009
