WPF 4.5 Unleashed

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating user interfaces in .NET applications - whether you're creating traditional user interfaces or integrating 3D graphics, multimedia, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more. It is also a superset of Silverlight, so you can leverage the same knowledge, code, and tools even when targeting cross-platform, cross-device applications inside or outside a Web browser.

The first edition of Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed was not only the best selling book on WPF 3.5, but was also commonly acclaimed as the best book on the subject. It was widely praised for the clarity of the writing, the thoroughness of the coverage, the practicality of the examples, and the sophistication of its form and style. This new edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors, while adding information on the many new features in WPF 4.5.

Adam Nathan is a principal software architect for Microsoft in the Startup Business Group. Adam was previously the founding developer and architect for Popfly, Microsoft's first product built on Silverlight, named one of the 25 most innovative products of 2007 by PCWorld Magazine. Having started his career on Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime team, Adam has been at the core of .NET and WPF technologies since the very beginning.

Adam’s books have been considered required reading by many inside Microsoft and throughout the industry. He is the author of the best-sellingWPF Unleashed (Sams, 2006) that was nominated for a 2008 Jolt Award, WPF 4 Unleashed(Sams, 2010), Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed (Sams, 2012), 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps (Sams, 2011), Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed (Sams, 2008), and.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide (Sams, 2002); a coauthor ofASP.NET: Tips, Tutorials, and Code (Sams, 2001); and a contributor to books including.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2 (Addison-Wesley, 2005) andWindows Developer Power Tools (O’Reilly, 2006). Adam is also the creator of PINVOKE.NET and its Visual Studio add-in. You can find him online at www.adamnathan.net or @adamnathan on Twitter.