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Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) | 
 enlarge | Author: Adam Nathan
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
List Price: £35.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8343
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 656
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 1.4
ISBN: 0672328917
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2768
EAN: 9780672328916
ASIN: 0672328917
Publication Date: January 2, 2007
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 Best WPF book so far December 17, 2008
I really like this book.
It is by no means a definitive WPF bible (that's what the Internet is for) but it tells you how to do things in WPF.
It leans slightly towards the 'learner' than 'professional' side.
This book is almost revolutionary in its approach to colour.
I want to see all technical books from now on have full colour code samples like this one.
It's the best WPF book out there. Get it.
-- Lee
 Excellent introduction to the subject March 22, 2008
I very much enjoyed reading this book and was able to put what I'd learned into practice straight away and produce a clean and functional data-bound GUI in Silverlight 2.0.
WPF has some tricky bits (e.g. dependency properties) and this book explains them succinctly and clearly and points out pitfalls in appropriate places.
Highly recommended.
One of the best technical tomes out there November 11, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is truly one of the best technical tomes I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I picked it up and read the book cover to cover over the course of a few evenings; it prepared me for WPF and did so in a way that enabled me to start thinking about how to build my application whilst leafing through page after page of detailed descriptions and expert knowledge.
 Mediocre but just about adequate October 21, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mediocre but just about adequate *if you already understand Win Forms.* Otherwise, despite what the introduction says, forget it. Much better than the dreadful "Pro WPF" though.
Very good but could be better February 4, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased this because it was the first post-RTM book on WPF to hit the market; so a lesson to all publishers out there. Before I start I have a confession: I am basing this review on the four chapters that I have actually read and the remaining chapters that I have merely skimmed. It should still be a fair summation though.
The good thing about this book is that it is written by someone who has been heavily involved in the development of .NET at Microsoft and co-authored by a man with similarly impressive credentials with WPF. So it passes the 3 C's (comprehensive, concise, and complete) easily. It is rather impressively (as it proudly advertises on the front cover) in full colour - which I have to say is a good thing for a book focusing on a *presentation* foundation.
The problem with this book is that is that it is (as the author states in the introduction) aimed at software developers. One would think this to be fortuitous, as developer is one of the many job titles that I go under - but it means that the structure of the book is such that having read it, developers will continue to work in the same way that they always have but with only a marginal paradigm shift. To put that in something resembling English: the problem that WPF has the potential to solve is the separation of user interface structure from user interface style (very much as HTML and CSS do on the web). This means developers could code whole application without wasting time on making it look pretty, choosing instead to leave that to designers.
Anyway, my gripe is that if this book were structured in a way that at least some of it would be useful to designers, as well as encouraging developers to remove style considerations from their field of vision; then it would be a much better volume.
To be fair, this is a well written introduction to WPF for developers - but it introduces too much complexity too soon (I glazed over by chapter 3) and doesn't lend itself well to involving designers in software development. The author does warn that learning WPF is a steep learning curve but unless you're pretty determined to start using WPF now, this book is just going to encourage procrastination. It appears to be the only up-to-date book out there though, so that alone makes it worth the (very reasonable) price.
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