Pro WPF in VB 2010

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.

What you’ll learn

• WPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flow



• WPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deployment



• Advanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and trees



• WPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packaging



• Graphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imaging

Who this book is for

This book is designed for developers encountering WPF for the first time in their professional lives. A working knowledge of Visual Basic (VB) and the basic architecture of .NET is helpful to follow the examples easily, but all concepts will be explained from the ground up.

Table of Contents

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