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Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Petzold
Publisher: MICROSOFT PRESS
Category: Book
List Price: £42.49
Buy New: £23.45
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 132095
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1020
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.6 x 2
ISBN: 0735619573
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780735619579
ASIN: 0735619573
Publication Date: August 30, 2006
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 Beyond XAML July 17, 2008
This book is an handy piece of work to have in conjunction with the more highly-rated WPF books. What it offers, largely lacking in other titles I've read, is an emphasis on coding WPF at runtime, rather than design time (ie XAML). It's let down only by the organisation of the content, more or less requiring the reader to plod through in order making it much less useful as a reference. That said, if you're doing anything serious in WPF, this book is worth the effort.
 Wow, this is Petzold again ! November 1, 2007
Buy this book if you want a deep and full understanding of WPF and how it works. If you are ready to follow a long tutorial, and at the end, know and understand many, many things about WPF. This is not a beginner book, as the title says (pro-developer).
This book is written in "petzold style", that is, short samples, and lots of explanations. Charles Petzold is a great author of Windows programming books for 20 years.
Don't buy this book if you want to quickly "teach yourself WPF in 24 hours", if you want a colorfull book, or if you just want an introduction to WPF that let you create small programs. This book is far more than that.
 S_OK July 23, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's a good book. You need to sit at your computer and work through all the examples to get the most from it. I wouldn't have been able to stay awake just reading about the WPF anyway.
You can download the code to save you typing it. I prefer typing it out anyway as it helps me to learn. I didn't notice the lack of screenshots as I was running the samples.
It's well written, there aren't many mistakes (see the errata), it introduces new concepts slowly and it covers a lot of ground.
 Not a practical guide February 22, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The lack of screenshots is challenging. If code "looks" like it might do what's required I have to type it out - this makes for a lot of typing when an example from the book doesn't quite fit the bill. Makes me think of the UNIX command-line junkies of the 90's - everything's got to be written out by hand to see what it'll do on the screen.
The book lacks practical examples such side-by-side code/XAML comparisons and how they'd work together to, say, load a .jpg from the file system or a web service for use as a tiling brush.
It's probably quite useful to propeller-heads that like theoretical breadth rather than practical application.
No Pictures! January 23, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm sorry, but for a book on User Interface programming, I was astonished to find that this book lacks ANY screenshots! Therefore although the explanations and theory are coherently explained in prose, the book would be a lot less dry with some illustrations to show the WPF in action.
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