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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (formerly known by its code name "Avalon") is a brand-new presentation framework for Windows XP and Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows client operating system. For developers, WPF is a cornucopia of new technologies, including a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language (XAML) for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model for controls.

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation is the book you need to get up to speed on WPF. By page two, you'll have written your first WPF application, and by the end of Chapter 1, "Hello WPF," you'll have completed a rapid tour of the framework and its major elements. These include the XAML markup language and the mapping of XAML markup to WinFX code; the WPF content model; layout; controls, styles, and templates; graphics and animation; and, finally, deployment.

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation features:

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  Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF application up and running, from a simple "Hello, Avalon" program to a tic-tac-toe game

• Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls

• A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects

• A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring Windows UI

• An explanation and comparison of the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications

The next generation of Windows applications is going to blaze a trail into the unknown. WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world and the content-based web world; it's an engine just itching to be taken for a spin. Inside, you'll find the keys to the ignition.

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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (之前曾使用项目代号 "Avalon"而为人所知)是为Windows XP及下一个Windows客户端操作系统——Windows Vista提供的全新的显示框架。对于开发者来说，WPF不啻于一场新技术的盛宴,其中包含了支持3D图形、动画和其他特性的新的图形引擎;基于XML的用于描述您的Windows用户界面结构的标识语言,以及激进而全新的控制模型。

当您需要赶上WPF发展的步伐时,Programming WPF正是您所需要的书.在第二页,您将编写您的第一个WPF应用程序;而在第一章"Hello WPF"的结尾,您将完成对于这套框架以及它的主要元素的概览.这些包括了对于XAML语言以及其到WinFX代码的映射;WPF内容模型;布局;空间,风格和模板;图形和动画,以及部署.

本书的内容包括:

    大量的基于C#和XAML的例子来向您展示如何成功地实现一个WPF应用程序,从单纯的"Hello,Avalon"到一字棋游戏程序;

    关于WPF带给Windows应用程序开发的全新而强大的编程风格的重要讨论,尤其是关于它的全新控制模型;

    为了更好地描述WPF对于3D,色彩以及其他图形特性的支持而绘制的彩色插图;

    对于类似于HTML的Windows用户界面描述语言XAML的使用教程;

    对WPF用于支持与Windows Forms以及其它遗留的Windows应用程序协同工作的各种特性的解释与比较.

下一代Windows应用程序的面貌难以预期,而WPF则描绘出了一个基于控制的Windows世界和基于内容的Web世界.WPF是一部渴望着被发动的引擎,而在本书中,你能找到启动它的钥匙.

 

About the Authors
Chris Sells is a program manager for the Connected Systems Division. He's written several books, including Programming Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms Programming in C# (Addison Wesley) and ATL Internals (Addison Wesley). In his free time, Chris hosts various conferences and makes a pest of himself on Microsoft internal product team discussion lists. More information about Chris, and his various projects, is available at http://www.sellsbrothers.com.

Ian Griffiths is an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on the Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question. More information about what Ian is up to can be found on his blog at http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/.
 
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关于作者

Chris Shells 是微软互联系统事业部的项目经理.他曾经有写作数本书籍的经历,其中包括Programming Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms Programming in C# (Addison Wesley)(其实VisualBasic的版本也是他写的...插一句...) 和ATL Internals (Addison Wesley).在他的业余时间,Chris主办各种讨论以及在微软内部产品团队维护一个关于他自己的令人讨厌之处的讨论列表.更多关于Chris以及他的各种工程的信息,可以在 http://www.sellsbrothers.com得到.

Ian Griffiths是一位独立顾问,开发者,演讲者和作家.他曾经为WPF,Windows Forms和VisualStudio写作书籍.他居住在伦敦,不过你可以在各种开发者邮件列表和新闻组中找到他的身影.在那些地方,一个热门的活动是看谁能让他用最长的email答复尽可能短小的问题.更多关于他的信息可以参阅他的博客:http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/.

 

 

 

PS:这还仅仅是一个OverView而已...应该就是O'Reilly封底上面那个介绍性的文字...翻成这样,估计我要被杀了...

      WPF,我也不懂,也指望这本书边翻译边学哩,于是原文中n多东西都是云里雾里的T_T...最后一段感觉好抽象啊,,,几乎看不懂的说...

      全文中都不知道应该把controls翻译成"控制"还是"控件",最后全都翻译成"控制"了...不了解WPF,也不知道这样翻译对不对...

      因为我手头的O'Reilly书OverView后面都是作者介绍,所以我也把作者介绍贴在后面了.Program Manager和Connected Systems Division不会翻译,放狗搜了一下,竟然搜到O'Reilly的老巢去了...原来这个书的第二版有中文版的说...