Sheridan Yuen - Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation: Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF, 2nd Edition

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Second edition: March 2020

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Sheridan Yuen is a Microsoft .NET MCTS and Oracle Java SCJP certified software developer, living in London, England. His passion for coding made him stand out from the crowd right from the start. Since his second year at university, he was employed as a teaching assistant for the first year student coding workshops and has been returning as a guest lecturer.
Among other prestigious positions, he was the primary software developer for the Ministry of Sound group for four years, working on their main music business application, responsible for creating their multi-award-winning albums. This application managed to increase its users' productivity by up to 80% in some cases.
In addition to this, he architected a unique ticket scanning application for their award-winning nightclub, making it the first club in the world to introduce scanned ticket entry across all streams for their clients. Coming from a musical background and being a qualified audio engineer, with experience of record production and digital audio, this post was a perfect union.
He soon became a popular figure in the C# and WPF sections of the Stack Overflow, "question and answer" website, being awarded enough reputation by the community members to raise him too well within the top half percent of all users. While authoring this book and other projects has kept him away for some time, he is keen to return to continue to help new users to get to grips with WPF.

Alex Drenea is an experienced software developer and architect with more than 15 years of experience working in various environments from enterprise to start-up. He has worked extensively with WFP since its inception in 2006 when it was still called Avalon and led teams at IBM building large scale WPF customer and enterprise applications.

Following that, he continued his journey by building on his WPF knowledge to become a Windows Phone and UWP developer and published more than 20 applications in the Windows store, with over half a million downloads. For his community contributions in the Windows platform, and recently in the Azure Data platform, he has been recognized as Microsoft MVP since 2016.

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Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides several libraries and APIs for developers to create engaging user experiences. This book features a wide range of simple to complex examples to demonstrate how to develop enterprise-grade applications for Windows desktop with WPF.

This updated second edition of Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation starts by covering the benefits of using the Model-View-View Model ( MVVM ) software architectural pattern with WPF, before guiding you through debugging your WPF apps. The book will then take you through the application architecture and building the foundation layer for your apps. As you advance, you'll get to grips with data binding, explore the various built-in WPF controls, and customize them to suit your requirements.

Filled with intriguing and practical examples, this book delineates concepts that will help you take your WPF skills to the next level. You'll learn to discover MVVM and how it assists in developing with WPF, implement your own custom application framework, understand how to adapt built-in controls, get up to speed with using animations, implement responsive data validation, create visually appealing user interfaces, and improve the performance of your app and learn how to deploy your applications.