Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

In this book, Windows programming legend Charles Petzold covers in parallel the two interfaces that make up the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). From the outset, the reader can shift focus seamlessly between Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and C# to see them as flip sides of the same processes. Beginning in the first chapter, Petzold presents the general syntax of the XAML and corresponding programming code with numerous illuminating examples on how the two correspond and interrelate. The book builds on this base, providing the classic Petzold Windows user interface (UI) treatment, to show Windows developers how to create next-generation interfaces for their applications.

Charles Petzold is a Windows Legend, Microsoft MVP, and author of the classic book PROGRAMMING WINDOWS, one of the best-known and mostly widely used programming guides of all time. He has been programming with Windows since obtaining a beta edition of Windows 1.0 SDK in 1986, and, in 1994, was honored with a Windows Pioneer Award by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Petzold is also a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine.