Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experience for Windows operating systems. This mix of user interface applications, documents, and media content, while utilizing the full power of your computer's operating system. Its functionality extends to support for Tablet PCs and other forms of input devices, and provide a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data-driven UIs and visualization, and integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell. After giving you a solid foundation, he went to explore advanced aspects of WPF and how they relate to other elements of the NET 4.0 platform. And related technologies such as Silverlight. What you will learn the basics of WPF: XAML, layout, critical control and data flow WPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deployment Advanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and trees WPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packaging graphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sounds and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imaging Who is this book?