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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation
Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation: Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF , Second Edition

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Key benefits

  • Discover a smarter way of working with WPF using the MVVM software architectural pattern
  • Create your own lightweight application framework to build your future applications upon
  • Understand data binding and learn how to use it in an application

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Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a rich set of libraries and APIs for developers to create engaging user experiences. This book features a wide range of examples, from simple to complex, to demonstrate how to develop enterprise-grade applications with WPF. This updated second edition of Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation starts by introducing the benefits of using the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) software architectural pattern with WPF, then moves on, to explain how best to debug our WPF applications. It explores application architecture, and we learn how to build the foundation layer of our applications. It then demonstrates data binding in detail, and examines the various built-in WPF controls and a variety of ways in which we can customize them to suit our requirements. We then investigate how to create custom controls, for when the built-in functionality in WPF cannot be adapted for our needs. The latter half of the book deals with polishing our applications, using practical animations, stunning visuals and responsive data validation. It then moves on, to look at improving application performance, and ends with tutorials on several methods of deploying our applications.

Who is this book for?

This Windows book is for developers with basic to intermediate-level knowledge of Windows Presentation Foundation and for those interested in simply enhancing their WPF skills. If you're looking to learn more about application architecture and designing user interfaces in a visually appealing manner, you'll find this book useful.

What you will learn

  • Discover MVVM and how it helps development with WPF
  • Implement your own custom application framework
  • Data bind the correct way
  • First understand, then adapt the built-in controls
  • Master practical animations
  • Implement responsive data validation
  • Create visually appealing user interfaces
  • Improve application performance

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Evert Wiesenekker May 13, 2020
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What I like about this book it builds everything ground-up, like a Command wrapper, Dependency Injection ect. Great if you want to learn something more than just use some NuGet package.
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前田 Jul 24, 2021
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WPFは、.NET Framework のような手続き型のライブラリーではなく、大枠の処理がフレームワークで実行されるように設計されています。したがって、プログラムは宣言型の構造になります。そのために、フレームワークの構造がどうなっているかを知らなくては、効率的で、効果的なプログラムは構築できません。この本は、WPFの構造を説明しており、どのようにプログラムするのが効率的かを解説しています。ある程度のWPFのプログラム経験のある人が対象になるのでしょう。 これから、WPFを習得しようとする場合は、最初に入門書を呼んだほうがわかりやすいいと思います。経験者にとっても有益な本です。GITHUBからサンプルプログラムが入手できるのですが、本文との対応表がないのでサンプルを開発環境で見ながら、本文を読みたいという場合に苦労するでしょう。残念。
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Amazon Customer May 09, 2020
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I found this book is very much insightful and I learned a lot of new fundamental technique in WPF programming. Especially, I like author's approach to emphasizing architectural thing, such as MVVM, data binding and controls content presentation models etc. It's not a good book for WPF beginners but I think it's very good book for intermediate programmers who want to improve WPF coding skill.Though the second edition is supposed to be updated to VisualStudio 2019, it seems it doesn't cover much about new C# language features nor .NET core 3.1 specific things. Also This books build its own application framework from scratch, but it might be better to cover some popular frameworks for MVVM , DI, logging and localization etc. that are essential for real world application development.
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k0ntrol Dec 23, 2020
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Very insightful book, but often hard to follow as a beginner.
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Timothy D. Gray Jan 25, 2024
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Honestly skip this book. I bought it directly from Packt and wish I didnt. it wastes a ton on talking about code management and frameworks. There are significantly better books on the subject to read about this subject. so 1/3rd right off the bat you skip. then another chunk on data binding which again there are way better books on the subject out there. I had to get almost 1/2 way through before it even started to talk about WPF and how to get started. All the other stuff is just there to pad the book to make you feel like you got some value. The rest is all what you can glean easily and presented in a much better way from several websites and in a far FAR more updated and accurate way. This book is already massively out of date at 4 years old now. If you can find it on sale for $5 it may be worth it, but at the full price it is absolutely a waste of your money. You will come out of this book more confused than when you started. The parts on custom layouts are useful. so it gets a star for that. but you can get more from digging through the github code to see things that are not explained at all in the book. like why the heck does my menu bar go moving around when the form is resized? common WPF problems and solutions are not covered at all in this "mastering" book.
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