Professional WPF Programming: .Net Development with the Windows Presentation Fou

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资源信息： 中文名: Professional WPF Programming: .Net Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation 原名: Professional WPF Programming: .Net Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation 作者: Chris Andrade, Shawn Livermore, Mike Meyers, Scott Van Vliet 图书分类: 软件 资源格式: PDF 版本: 文字版 出版社: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 书号: 978-0-470-04180-2 发行时间: 2007年 地区: 美国 语言: 英文 概述:

内容介绍： This is an exciting time for developers using Microsoft technologies. A seemingly endless array of new platforms, techniques, and tools is now available or will soon be released. The developer’s playground is growing fast. One of the new platforms emerging from the think-tank at Microsoft is the .NET Framework 3.0, a key component of which (and the subject of this book) is the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). WPF provides both developers and designers with a unified platform for creating rich-media applications that take full advantage of the graphics capabilities of modern PC hardware. We’ve come a long way from the command-line interfaces of decades past. Today’s application user expects a visually engaging and streamlined interactive experience due in part to their exposure to rich media and content found on the Internet. WPF is all about creating a rich user interface that meets these expectations, incorporating media of all types, such as animation, video, and audio. Furthermore, through the use of a new markup syntax called XAML and a new suite of design tools called Microsoft Expression Blend, developers and designers can now collaborate on projects seamlessly as never before. Prior to WPF, designers would create graphical elements for applications and hand those elements off to developers in the form of image files. Developers would then have to model a user interface (UI) around them. Designers can now model UI using Expression Blend, save the design as a XAML file, and simply hand the file off to a developer to code against in Visual Studio using WPF. This book covers the concepts and components that make up the Windows Presentation Foundation. You learn how to create a rich UI, exploring the various controls now available to you, and how to lever-age the new content model that WPF provides. You explore the WPF object model as well as the new subsystems offered in WPF, such as the dependency property system and the routed event model. You learn how to develop and deploy WPF applications targeting both the desktop and the browser. This book also covers the new XAML syntax, which is a markup language used to define UI in your WPF applications, regardless of whether you are developing for a standalone Windows-based environment or targeting the web. Additionally, you learn the basics of working with Expression Blend, the new graphi-cal design tool offered by Microsoft. WPF is a large platform, and we’ve tried to cover a wide range of topics in this book. Our intent is to touch on a bit of everything WPF has to offer, so you know not only what’s provided by the platform, but also how to utilize it. Of course, because it’s a large platform, we won’t be able to cover everything, but we’ve tried to pick the essential concepts you’ll need to get started. We hope you find it both fun and educational and that it provides a solid foundation for you as you venture in to the new world of rich UI development using Windows Presentation Foundation. Whom This Book Is For This book is aimed primarily at .NET Framework developers who want to learn how to develop applica-tions using Microsoft’s new presentation framework, WPF. Designers who may consider using the new Expression Blend suite of design tools and who are seeking to understand how these tools will enhance collaboration with developers will also find this book to be a good introduction. For new developers, xx Introduction there is some value in learning the new XAML syntax, but most concepts will be too advanced. For these readers, we suggest learning .NET 2.0 as a positive first step toward WPF. Readers who will find this book useful include: ❑ Microsoft .NET application developers looking to learn about the new WPF platform ❑ Designers looking to gain insight into Microsoft Expression Blend and the collaboration capabil-ities offered by WPF and the tools that support it In addition, familiarity with the following related technologies is a strong indicator that this book is for you: ❑ Microsoft .NET Framework ❑ C# ❑ Web Services ❑ HTML ❑ CSS Of the preceding list, a basic understanding of the .NET Framework and C# is essential. Familiarity with Web Services, HTML markup, and CSS concepts would be beneficial, but is not required to understand the content of this book. Those readers without at least .NET Framework and C# knowledge should instead refer to books such as Professional .NET Framework 2.0 (ISBN 978-0-7645-7135-0) and Professional C# 2005 (ISBN 978-0-7645-7534-1). Reading this book from cover to cover, in sequence, is not a requirement. We suggest reading Chapters 1 through 3 initially, to get a basic understanding of WPF and XAML. After that, skipping around through the chapters, as interest or needs dictate, should be fine. What This Book Covers Professional WPF Programming provides a developer-level tutorial of WPF programming techniques, pat-terns, and use cases. The book begins with an overview of WPF. Questions such as “What is WPF?”, “How do I start using WPF?” and “What does WPF have to offer me?” are answered early in the first chapter, followed swiftly by a detailed look at the subsystems and graphical features offered by the platform. Following the overview, you dive right into the programming techniques you need for WPF. Using Visual Studio to create some examples, you get up-to-speed fast and start creating applications right away. Also, you are introduced to XAML, the new markup syntax for creating a UI. XAML is actually a separate technology from WPF, but WPF uses it extensively. With the basic concepts and programming techniques of WPF under your belt, you take a brief journey into the world of design tools. Microsoft now offers its own suite of compelling design tools, and you’ll get some firsthand experience with the new Microsoft Expression Blend. Using Expression Blend, you xxi Introduction create advanced UI and learn to implement styling, layout, and animation. You also see how easy it is to save your design in XAML and then use that very same markup in Visual Studio to begin coding appli-cation logic. Next, you learn how to create special effects in WPF, including bitmap effects, transformations, and the use of brush objects to get glass or reflection effects. The book demonstrates these techniques and pro-vides a foundation for creating visually stunning elements in your applications. Following special effects, you are introduced to custom control authoring in WPF. WPF provides a very customizable object model that allows you to apply styles and templates to existing elements. A new content model allows you to place almost any element inside of another element. Given these new capa-bilities, you’re unlikely to encounter many scenarios where you need to create a custom control. However, we “never say never,” and there may be some scenarios in which a custom control is the way to go. This book covers the topics you should take into consideration when deciding whether to create a custom control, as well as how to build a custom control when necessary. Next, the book dives into developing WPF applications for the enterprise. WPF offers two flavors of application that you can create: standalone Windows-based, or web-based. The key thing to understand is that both models utilize the same code-base, XAML, and .NET. This means that specifying your target hosting environment is really just a matter of tweaking project file settings and then managing deploy-ment. This is extremely powerful stuff, and it is all covered within the enterprise topics discussed in this book. After you gain a good understanding of application models and deployment, you will want to under-stand security. Security in WPF is based on the .NET 2.0 CAS security model. Security is also based on the application model you choose and where the application will be hosted. If it is hosted in a browser, you will need to understand the Internet Zone permission set. These topics are covered in depth. With the basics of WPF application development, deployment, and security fully explored, the book then dives into some more advanced concepts. One of those concepts is how to mix Win32 and WPF code. Interoperation considerations will be covered. Hosting Win32 in WPF and the reverse is possible, and you’ll learn how to implement this feature so that you can start incorporating WPF into your Win32 applications right away. The book finishes with a WPF deep dive into architecture, WPF framework, XAML, and threading con-siderations. In addition, the book covers the basics of both Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) so that you can become familiar with the other compo-nents of the .NET Framework 3.0. To round out your understanding of these important components, you will build a sample WCF service and a simple WF workflow application. How This Book Is Structured Professional WPF Programming begins by providing some background on how and why Microsoft is shift-ing away from the long-standing Win32 platform in the direction of WPF. This is followed by an overview of WPF and the core components and subsystems of the platform. Next, a tour of Expression Blend is offered, and we provide examples to show you how to build rich UI. The remaining chapters then focus on individual topics related to WPF development. The book ends with a brief introduction to two other components that, along with WPF, make the .NET Framework 3.0 such an important and powerful platform. xxii Introduction The chapter-level breakdown is as follows: ❑ Chapter 1, “Overview of Windows Presentation Foundation”—This chapter explores the evo-lution of the Windows API over the years and how this paved the way for a new platform, WPF. You will then take a high-level tour of the WPF architecture, including the new graphics capa-bilities and subsystems that are introduced by the platform. Additional development tools are also introduced. ❑ Chapter 2, “WPF and .NET Programming”—This chapter walks you through the requirements for building and running WPF applications. You also learn about the various subsystems, such as the dependency property and routed event systems. Furthermore, you are introduced to the controls offered by WPF, and you learn how you can modify and extend these controls using the new constructs provided by the platform. ❑ Chapter 3, Anatomy of a WPF-Enabled Application—This chapter introduces the various application models you can use in WPF, such as those for standalone and browser-based appli-cations. The anatomy, which includes the files and configuration settings, will also be explored so that you are able to get up and running quickly developing WPF applications. ❑ Chapter 4, “Building a Rich UI with Microsoft Expression Blend: Part I”—This chapter intro-duces the new tools for designers working with WPF, specifically, Microsoft Expression Blend. You take a tour of the design environment provided by Expression Blend and look at the project file structure. The chapter also covers creating vector graphics, layouts, animation, and controls. ❑ Chapter 5, “Building a Rich UI with Microsoft Expression Blend: Part II”—This chapter builds on the concepts introduced in Chapter 4. You learn about how to add interactivity to your projects to handle user input, events, and hit testing. The chapter also provides a series of animation examples and you are introduced to the WPF drawing API. This chapter also illus-trates the collaboration features provided between Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2005. ❑ Chapter 6, “Special Effects”—This chapter explores the rich capabilities and special effects offered in WPF. Brushes, bitmap effects, and transformations are all covered extensively. Using these concepts, you can create rich UI both easily and quickly in WPF. ❑ Chapter 7, “Custom Controls”—This chapter tackles custom control development in WPF. Because of the extensive support for templates and styles in WPF, you will likely find that your need for custom controls will be slim. However, there are times you will need or want to create a custom control. This chapter covers not just how to create custom controls, but also how to determine if you can get by with using the built-in support for templates and styles because they are such powerful tools. ❑ Chapter 8, “Using WPF in the Enterprise”—This chapter explores the many factors to consider when building an enterprise-level application with WPF. Application models, deployment, hosting environment, security considerations, navigation, state management, and localization are covered thoroughly in this chapter. ❑ Chapter 9, “Security”—This chapter explores the security features of WPF. Security in WPF is pri-marily based on the application model you choose and where your application is hosted. This chapter covers OS security, CAS security, the Internet security sandbox, and ClickOnce security. ❑ Chapter 10, “WPF and Win32 Interop”—This chapter focuses on how your WPF application can interoperate with existing Win32 applications. The question “Can I host my WPF applica-tion in a Win32 application?” and vice versa will be answered. You will learn about how HWNDS differ in WPF from Win32-based applications. xxiii Introduction ❑ Chapter 11, “Advanced Development Concepts”—This chapter dives deeper into many con-cepts introduced throughout the book. You get a thorough look at WPF architecture and what makes WPF tick. You take a tour through the important classes in the WPF framework, such as the Application and DependencyObject classes. The chapter covers XAML syntax and struc-ture in great depth. Threading in WPF applications is explored. Finally, this chapter takes a high-level look at two other components of the .NET 3.0 Framework: Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. What You Need to Use This Book To develop WPF applications and create the examples in this book, you must have the following installed: ❑ Windows SDK ❑ .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components ❑ Visual Studio 2005 with Visual Studio codename “Orcas” CTP WinFX Development Tools or the Orcas release of Visual Studio 2005 Chapter 2 outlines these requirements in more detail as well as where and how to obtain the necessary components. 作者介绍： Chris Andrade is a Principal with Novera Consulting, a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in enterprise architecture and development with .NET and Microsoft server technology. Chris devotes most of his time to assisting companies in applying Microsoft technologies to improve their business pro-cesses and operations. Chris has worked within a diverse range of business verticals, including automo-tive, healthcare, and mortgage. Chris also takes active participation within the local developer community, speaking and presenting along the west coast whenever possible. Shawn Livermore (MCAD, MCSD, PMP) [shawnlivermore.blogspot.com] has been architecting and developing Microsoft-based solutions for nearly a decade. Shawn has been consulting as an enterprise and solutions architect for Fortune 500 clientele within highly visible enterprise implementations. His range of technical competence stretches across platforms and lines of business, but he specializes in Microsoft .NET enterprise application architectures and Microsoft server-based product integrations. Shawn lives in the Southern California area with his beautiful wife Shantell and amazing daughter Elexzandreia. Shawn also enjoys beating his friend Jason at air hockey, basketball, baseball, football, arcade games, cards, billiards, ping pong, shuffleboard, trivia, golf, racquetball, dirt bike races, cross-country skiing... and pretty much any other sport in existence. Shawn would like to once again remind Jason, “Who’s your daddy?” Mike Meyers is president of Novera Consulting Inc, a software development and consulting firm spe-cializing in custom application development utilizing the .NET platform and Microsoft server technol-ogy. Based in Orange County, California, Mike’s company is focused on providing solutions based on Microsoft platforms and technology to companies spanning multiple industries. Mike has worked in a number of industries, including mortgage, healthcare, and various ecommerce ventures as developer, architect, and project manager. When he’s not writing code, Mike is active mountain biking in southern California, hiking with his four-legged Labrador Dakota or playing music with friends. Scott Van Vliet is an accomplished Solutions Architect who has spent the past decade delivering suc-cessful Microsoft-based solutions to his clients. Currently a Senior Manager with Capgemini, a world-wide leader in technology consulting services, Scott has managed, architected, and developed solutions for companies across the globe. He is also the Microsoft Delivery Leader for Capgemini’s Telecom, Media & Entertainment practice, providing technical and engagement leadership on all Microsoft-based projects. Scott can be reached via his Web site at http://www.scottvanvliet.com/. 内容截图：

目录: Acknowledgments ix Introduction xix Chapter 1: Overview of Windows Presentation Foundation 1 A Brief History of the Windows API 2 Platform Evolution 2 Introducing .NET Framework 3.0 3 Meet Windows Presentation Foundation 3 Guiding Design Principles 3 Architecture 5 XAML 15 Declarative vs. Imperative 15 Visual Design Tools 18 XamlPad 18 Microsoft Expression Blend 19 Visual Designer for Windows Presentation Foundation 20 Electric Rain ZAM 3D 21 Mobiform Aurora 22 Summary 23 Chapter 2: WPF and .NET Programming 25 Getting Started 26 Required Installations 26 Types of WPF Applications 26 My First WPF Application 27 WPF Development Concepts 29 XAML 29 The Application Object 30 Creating the User Interface 32 Handling Events 35 Working with Controls 41 Triggers 51 Language Support 58 Deployment 61 Summary 61 xii Contents Chapter 3: Anatomy of a WPF-Enabled Application 63 Project Composition 63 App.Manifest 66 AssemblyInfo.cs 66 Resources.resx 68 Settings.settings 68 MyApp.xaml 70 .NET Framework 3.0 Windows Application 71 Window1.xaml 72 XAML Browser Application 73 Page1.xaml 73 WCF Service Library 75 Class1.cs 75 WPF Custom Control Library 78 UserControl1.xaml 79 Summary 82 Chapter 4: Building a Rich UI with Microsoft Expression Blend — Part I 83 Overview 84 The Design Environment 85 Workspace Panels 86 The Artboard 87 Configuring the Environment 88 Project Structure 90 Adding a New Project File 90 Building and Deploying a Project 91 Creating Vector Objects 91 Shapes 92 Paths 93 Manipulating Objects with the Properties Panel 94 The Transform Panel 94 The Brushes Panel 95 Opacity, Transparency, and Visibility 97 Manipulating Text 98 Managing Layouts 99 UI Layout Panels 100 Other Layout Controls 103 Nesting Layout Panels 103 xiii Contents Animation 104 Timeline Sub-Panel 104 Keyframes 105 Animate an Object’s Property 106 Motion Paths 106 Triggers 107 Creating Controls 108 Templates 110 Styles 111 States 112 Importing Audio/Video Media 113 Summary 113 Chapter 5: Building a Rich UI with Microsoft Expression Blend — Part II 115 Expression Blend Workflow 116 Code Editing with Visual Studio 2005 117 Handling User Input 118 Keyboard and Mouse Classes 118 Events and Event Handling 118 Positioning 120 Hit Testing 124 The WPF Animation API 135 Animation Classes 135 Creating a Dynamic Animation Procedurally with Code 135 Programmatic Animation 139 Interacting with Storyboards 143 WPF Drawing API 145 Geometry 145 Shapes 146 Brushes 149 Summary 153 Chapter 6: Special Effects 155 Brushes 156 SolidColorBrush 156 GradientBrush 162 ImageBrush 165 DrawingBrush 167 VisualBrush 169 xiv Contents Bitmap Effects 171 Transformations 175 TranslateTransform 178 ScaleTransform 180 SkewTransform 183 RotateTransform 186 Opacity Masks 188 Putting It All Together — Combining Effects 191 Bouncing Ball with Reflection Example 191 Animated Image Viewer Example 197 Summary 203 Chapter 7: Custom Controls 205 Overview 206 Control Base Classes 207 The UserControl Class 207 Creating a User Control 207 Data Binding in WPF 217 Binding Markup Extensions 217 Binding Modes 217 Data Templates 219 Data Conversions 221 Creating and Editing Styles 222 Specifying a Style’s Target Type 223 Inheriting and Overriding Styles 224 Style Triggers 226 Customizing Existing Controls with Templates 228 Summary 231 Chapter 8: Using WPF in the Enterprise 233 WPF Application Models 234 Standalone Applications 235 Browser-Based Applications 238 Security Considerations 247 State Management 248 Application Object 248 Isolated Storage 250 State Management Example 252 xv Contents Navigation 258 Elements of Navigation 258 Structured Navigation 259 Navigation Topologies 269 Application Localization 286 Automatic Layout Guidelines 287 Using Grids for Flexibility 289 Localization Attributes and Comments 290 WPF Deployment Models 291 Building Applications 292 Deploying Standalone Windows Applications 294 Deploying XAML Browser Applications 295 Deploying the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime 296 Summary 298 Chapter 9: Security 299 WPF Security Model 299 Trusted Versus Express Applications 300 Core OS Security 300 LUA 301 Virtualization 301 Sandboxing 301 Cryptography Next Generation 302 CLR Security 302 Code Access Security 303 The Critical Code Methodology 311 Verification 313 Microsoft Internet Explorer Security 313 Zone Restrictions 313 XBAP Sandbox Workarounds 314 XAML Browser Application Security 315 ClickOnce Security 323 Trusted Publishers 323 Personal Certificate File 324 .NET 3.0 Security Utilities 327 Summary 328 xvi Contents Chapter 10: WPF and Win32 Interop 329 Win32 User Interface Overview 330 How WPF and HWNDs Interoperate 330 Using Win32 HWNDs Inside of WPF 331 Hosting a Win32 Button in WPF 332 Using WPF in Win32 Applications 335 Adding Windows Forms Controls to WPF 337 Adding Your WindowsFormsHost in Code 337 Adding Your HwndHost in XAML 339 Adding ActiveX Controls to WPF 339 Adding the ActiveX Control in XAML 344 Adding WPF Controls to Windows Forms 345 Affecting Control Properties 349 Summary 351 Chapter 11: Advanced Development Concepts 353 WPF Architecture 354 Core Subsystems 356 WPF Threading Model 359 Desktop Window Manager 360 The WPF Framework 361 Dispatcher Object 362 DependencyObject/DependencyProperty 362 Application 363 Freezable 364 Visual 364 UIElement 370 FrameworkElement 371 Control 371 A Deeper Look at XAML 373 XAML Under the Hood 373 Manipulating XAML On-the-Fly 378 Deconstructing Window1.xaml 382 x:Class 383 XAML Markup Extensions 385 XAML and Custom Types 386 xvii Contents WPF Multithreading 388 Single-Threaded Application Model 388 Thread Affinity and DispatcherObject 389 WPF Dispatcher 390 Working with Single-Threaded Applications 391 Asynchronous Threading 393 Windows Communication Foundation 397 Service Orientation 397 WCF Architecture 398 WCF Fundamentals 399 Building a WCF Service 402 Windows Workflow Foundation 409 Workflow Defined 410 WF Architecture 411 WF Fundamentals 411 Summary 427 Index 429