Matthew MacDonald is an author,educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He isthe author of more than a dozen books about .NET programming. In a dimly-remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.

• * Introducing WPF * XAML * Layout * Dependency Properties * Routed Events * Controls * The Application * Element Binding * Commands * Resources * Styles and Behaviors * Shapes, Brushes, and Transforms * Geometries and Drawings * Effects and Visuals * Animation Basics * Advanced Animation * Control Templates * Custom Elements * Data Binding * Formatting * Bound Data * Data Views * Lists, Trees, and Grids * Windows Pages and Navigation * Menus, Toolbars, and Ribbons * Sound and Video *3-D Drawing * Documents * Printing * Interacting with Windows Forms * Multithreading * The Add-in Model * ClickOnce Deployment

From the reviews of the fourth edition: "The book really starts from the very beginning of WPF and explains the general ideas in an understanding way. ... every chapter can be read independently and the book can be used as a source of quick advice. Furthermore, the examples of the book are really written in a nice way ... ." (Vitosh Kolev Doynov, Amzon.com, February, 2014)