The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences in Windows Vista. WPF blends application user interface, documents, and media content to provide richer control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs.

Author Matthew MacDonald shows you how WPF really works. His no-nonsense, practical advice will get you building high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. MacDonald will take you through a thorough investigation of the more advanced aspects of WPF, and its relation to other elements of the WinFX stack and the .NET Framework 3.5, to complete your understanding of WPF and C# 2008.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 28 Ratings

Best WPF book out there so far... - 2009-11-08
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I purchased many of the WPF books out there for myself and my team. This book has become my new favorite (with Chris Sells WPF book coming in second - sorry Chris!). The book goes into more details about why things work the way they do instead of just saying this is how it should be done. Books that provide deep understanding of a topic are hard to find in today's mantra of pushing low budget tech books out the door for copy and paste code examples. The author finds just the right balance of code, pictures and words. With this book you get 800 pages of information and not 800 pages of code examples printed page after page after page.

good ref for wpf but doesn't help your wpf programmming skills - 2009-08-26
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I like the fact that this book is bulky and a good reference to wpf
Don't like the fact that it doesn't show you any programming struture for using the code
Reminds me of the cut and paste in vb5 from the msdn cds
Maybe the author should write another book on wpf programming structures/framework

Good book - 2009-11-02
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This book presents the subject well and I recommend it to the other programmers who want to learn about this subject.

Very complete WPF reference - 2009-09-12
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While waiting for a 2010 edition, probably the best and most complete WPF book around.

Nothing more than a list of manual - 2009-09-04
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Nothing but a huge list of manuals.
I don't think we have time to read the huge manuals to get started with WPF in these fast changing times.

And it was boring! Just think about reading 1000 pages of manual!

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