1. Introducing WPF


2. XAML


3. Layout


4. Dependency Properties


5. Routed Events


6. Controls


7. The Application


8. Element Binding


9. Commands


10. Resources


11. Styles and Behaviors


12. Shapes, Brushes, and Transforms


13. Geometries and Drawings


14. Effects and Visuals


15. Animation Basics


16. Advanced Animation


17. Control Templates


18. Custom Elements


19. Data Binding


20. Formatting Bound Data


21. Data Views


22. Lists, Trees, and Grids


23. Windows


24. Pages and Navigation


25. Menus, Toolbars, and Ribbons


26. Sound and Video


27. 3-D Drawing


28. Documents


29. Printing


30. Interacting with Windows Forms


31. Multithreading


32. The Add-in Model


33. ClickOnce Deployment

Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends the application user interface, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer's operating system.

Its functionality extends to the support for tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and user interface automation infrastructure, data-driven user interface and visualization, and integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.

This book shows you how WPF really works. It provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice that you need in order to build high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. Having built a firm foundation, it goes on to explore more advanced aspects of WPF and how they relate to the others elements of the .NET 4.0 platform and associated technologies such as Silverlight.

Matthew MacDonald is an author,educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He isthe author of more than a dozen books about .NET programming. In a dimly-remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.