Andrew Moore 
Create Amazing Custom User Interfaces with WPF, C#, and XAML in .NET 3.0 

This Wrox Blox presents WPF along with the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), showing developers how to customize existing user interface controls such as the Button, Progress Bar, Check Box, Radio Button, and Label along with creating two new custom controls. The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) released with the .NET 3.0 SDK provides a rich foundation for developing and customizing user interfaces. Unlike existing user interface development tools like GDI and GDI+, WPF is entirely vector-based, offering the developer enhanced two-dimensional and even three-dimensional rendering in the presentation layer. The author customizes these existing controls using XAML to:* Create control templates to define their appearance and behaviors.* Create two new custom controls, one derived from System.Windows.User Control and the second from System.Windows.Control.* Illustrate the interoperability of WPF content in Windows Forms and Win32 applications.* Create the code samples using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with extensions for .NET 3.0 and the .NET 3.0 SDK. These code samples contain four projects: A C# WPF control library that contains the control templates and a User Control containing the customized Windows controls and the two new custom controls; a C# WPF application to host the WPF User Control; a C# Windows Forms application to host the WPF User Control; and a C++ Win32 application to host the WPF User Control.

Table of Content

Overview.Control Templates.Custom Controls.Interoperability with Win32 Applications.Interoperability with Windows Forms Applications.Summary.About Andrew Moore.

About the author

Andrew Moore has been developing software since 1998 for radar systems, air traffic management, discrete-event simulation, and business communications applications using C, C++, C#, and Java on the Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Interactive Intelligence, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana, developing Microsoft-based applications for business communications. Andrew lives in Indiana with his wife Barbara and children Sophia and Andrew.