--- product_id: 1929115 title: "WPF 4.5 Unleashed" price: "NT$4728" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1929115-wpf-4-5-unleashed store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Advanced Techniques Comprehensive Guide Boost Productivity WPF 4.5 Unleashed **Price:** NT$4728 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“ˆ Elevate Your Coding Game with WPF 4.5 Unleashed! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** WPF 4.5 Unleashed - **How much does it cost?** NT$4728 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1929115-wpf-4-5-unleashed) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Expert Insights:** Gain knowledge from industry leaders and seasoned professionals. - β€’ **Master WPF with Ease:** Unlock the full potential of Windows Presentation Foundation. - β€’ **Step-by-Step Guidance:** Navigate complex concepts with clear, structured tutorials. - β€’ **Real-World Applications:** Learn through practical examples that enhance your skill set. - β€’ **Stay Ahead of the Curve:** Equip yourself with the latest WPF features and best practices. ## Overview WPF 4.5 Unleashed is a comprehensive resource designed for developers looking to master Windows Presentation Foundation. This book offers in-depth coverage of advanced techniques, practical applications, and expert insights, making it an essential guide for anyone aiming to enhance their programming skills and productivity. ## Description The #1 WPF Book--Now Updated for WPF 4.5! Thorough, authoritative coverage, practical examples, clear writing, and full-color presentation make this one of the most widely acclaimed programming books of the last decade. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating modern Windows desktop apps. Whether you want to develop traditional user interfaces or integrate 3D graphics, audio/video, animation, dynamic skinning, touch, rich document support, speech recognition, or more, WPF enables you to do so in a seamless, resolution-independent manner that scales from small tablets to large TVs. WPF 4.5 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers it all, in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by WPF guru and Microsoft architect Adam Nathan. Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) Examines the WPF feature areas in incredible depth: controls, layout, resources, data binding, styling, graphics, animation, and more Delves into topics that aren’t covered by most books: 3D, speech, audio/video, documents, effects Shows how to create popular UI elements and leverage built-in controls such as the new Office-style Ribbon Demonstrates how to create sophisticated UI mechanisms, such as Visual Studio-like collapsible/dockable panes Explains how to create first-class custom controls for WPF Demonstrates how to create hybrid WPF software that leverages Windows Forms, DirectX, ActiveX, or other non-WPF technologies Explains how to exploit desktop features, such as Jump Lists and taskbar customizations, and the same toast notifications used by Windows Store apps Review: The best WPF book there is and one of the best technical books I've read to date - This book is a prime example of how a WPF book should be written. The author not only presents many topics in an encyclopedic fashion, but also gives details for the "whys." Also, the diagrams in the book are phenomenal in helping to illustrate the examples and descriptions presented in the text. The book has both a lot of breadth and a lot of depth as well. One can choose to read this book "superficially," ignoring the details. However, for those of us who are interested in the whys as well as the hows, this book presents much more depth than I would expect from a WPF (or any software development) book. As for the rating, I give the content 6 out of 5 stars. On the other hand, I give the publisher (Sams) 2 out of 5 stars. The reason for this is that the pages are ridiculously thin, so you get bleed-through between the two sides of a page, especially in the many densely colored regions that are present in the illustrations in this book. Also, the CMY color plates that are used to add color to the book were often off, resulting in imprecise positioning of colors which is especially noticeable on thin lines and colored text. On top of all of this, two physical pages in my particular book had slight creases in the paper, which resulted in significant misprints on those pages. Fortunately, the resultant printed pages were still legible, so I did not bother to return the book to desertcart or the publisher for a replacement. In all, because of the quality of the actual content, I do not want to subtract a star or two from the book's rating. However, I think that Sams _really_ needs to do a much better job of printing color books such as this one. Skimping on paper thickness and not aligning the color plates properly is reminiscent of printing errors from the early 80s, not late 2013. Review: Good book for advanced developers - This book will not teach you how to write desktop applications. Rather, it assumes you already have experience doing so, but want to learn how to do it with WPF. For example, it will tell you all sorts of interesting things about using a ListView control in WPF, but doesn't spend a lot of time explaining what it is or why you'd want to use it vs. other options. There's a general bottom-up mentality that pervades the structure of the book. For example, there's a chapter for "Content Controls", followed by a chapter for "Items Controls". The chapter titles and their contents come from the base classes that the controls inherit from. Whereas other books might organize things by complexity or purpose, WPF Unleashed organizes them by class hierarchy. Sometimes useful information is hard to find. For example, if you want to know how to create a modal dialog, you'd probably look up "modal dialog" in the index. This would take you to a section on popping up Win32 or WinForms dialogs from within a WPF application. The actual discussion of modal dialogs is in a small sub-section entitled, "Custom Dialogs". Fortunately these occurrences are rare. On the plus side, the book covers a tremendous amount of ground, and does a pretty good job of explaining some very complicated topics. (Properties, dependency properties, attached properties, attached property providers, property triggers, property wrappers, property paths, ...) The paperback version is printed in full color, on relatively thin paper. On pages with heavy color areas, like the start of each chapter, the paper tends to curl. Not really a problem, just odd. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,172,000 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #319 in Software Design & Engineering #353 in Software Development (Books) #385 in Computer Networking (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 164 Reviews | ## Images ![WPF 4.5 Unleashed - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/713G4bF2CRL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best WPF book there is and one of the best technical books I've read to date *by M***N on November 26, 2013* This book is a prime example of how a WPF book should be written. The author not only presents many topics in an encyclopedic fashion, but also gives details for the "whys." Also, the diagrams in the book are phenomenal in helping to illustrate the examples and descriptions presented in the text. The book has both a lot of breadth and a lot of depth as well. One can choose to read this book "superficially," ignoring the details. However, for those of us who are interested in the whys as well as the hows, this book presents much more depth than I would expect from a WPF (or any software development) book. As for the rating, I give the content 6 out of 5 stars. On the other hand, I give the publisher (Sams) 2 out of 5 stars. The reason for this is that the pages are ridiculously thin, so you get bleed-through between the two sides of a page, especially in the many densely colored regions that are present in the illustrations in this book. Also, the CMY color plates that are used to add color to the book were often off, resulting in imprecise positioning of colors which is especially noticeable on thin lines and colored text. On top of all of this, two physical pages in my particular book had slight creases in the paper, which resulted in significant misprints on those pages. Fortunately, the resultant printed pages were still legible, so I did not bother to return the book to Amazon or the publisher for a replacement. In all, because of the quality of the actual content, I do not want to subtract a star or two from the book's rating. However, I think that Sams _really_ needs to do a much better job of printing color books such as this one. Skimping on paper thickness and not aligning the color plates properly is reminiscent of printing errors from the early 80s, not late 2013. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book for advanced developers *by A***N on April 28, 2019* This book will not teach you how to write desktop applications. Rather, it assumes you already have experience doing so, but want to learn how to do it with WPF. For example, it will tell you all sorts of interesting things about using a ListView control in WPF, but doesn't spend a lot of time explaining what it is or why you'd want to use it vs. other options. There's a general bottom-up mentality that pervades the structure of the book. For example, there's a chapter for "Content Controls", followed by a chapter for "Items Controls". The chapter titles and their contents come from the base classes that the controls inherit from. Whereas other books might organize things by complexity or purpose, WPF Unleashed organizes them by class hierarchy. Sometimes useful information is hard to find. For example, if you want to know how to create a modal dialog, you'd probably look up "modal dialog" in the index. This would take you to a section on popping up Win32 or WinForms dialogs from within a WPF application. The actual discussion of modal dialogs is in a small sub-section entitled, "Custom Dialogs". Fortunately these occurrences are rare. On the plus side, the book covers a tremendous amount of ground, and does a pretty good job of explaining some very complicated topics. (Properties, dependency properties, attached properties, attached property providers, property triggers, property wrappers, property paths, ...) The paperback version is printed in full color, on relatively thin paper. On pages with heavy color areas, like the start of each chapter, the paper tends to curl. Not really a problem, just odd. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Written to make you MORE of an expert *by R***Y on September 17, 2013* Probably the most important thing you and I look for in these reviews is "Who is this book written for?". The answer here is someone who already knows a good deal of C# programming that wants to become an expert at WPF. If you want a start-from-zero book on how to create user interfaces this is not it. But if you know C# and you want to learn WPF in the context of how it interacts with C code as well as with hardware, this is the book for you. The more you know about programming in general, the more this book will help you. It's hard to quantify what is meant by "expert" and "the more you know . . . " but if you don't know what inheritance is or what "instanciate" means, you might not get as much out of it. If you know C# and you want to get about as deep into WPF as you can go, this book will take you there. The first three chapters set the stage by giving extensive details on the background, philosophy and operation of WPF. There is even some history thrown in, and the author is in a position to know it! I read those three but started on Chapt 4 where the WPF building really begins. I can give you some advice as to the path to follow if you're not already a C# expert. I certainly wasn't when I was searching for a book like this but I was a competent programmer. I started with John Sharp's excellent book "Visual C# 2010", beginning on p. 443 he takes you through your first WPF interface in great detail for about 100 pages. After I finished his tutorial, I had no trouble going to "WPF 4.5 Unleashed" and starting on Chapt 4 where Mr. Nathan begins getting into WPF deeply. Between the two I learned a lot of both interface and programming skills. I would not have been able to just jump into "Unleashed" because I didn't quite have the programming skills. You might be in better or worse shape to start. From what I now know about WPF, there isn't much that it can do that this book doesn't at least touch on. It was a great teaching tool for me and serves now as a reference book when I need to try something advanced. The writing is succinct and clear. The color graphics and type are VERY helpful and greatly aids following along on your computer, particularly if you Visual Studio. It's a very good book and I'm glad I bought it. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1929115-wpf-4-5-unleashed](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1929115-wpf-4-5-unleashed) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-07-24*