WPF Programming Resources

All books below are available electronically for free from the U Calgary library. Chase the link. If you are accessing it from the University, you should see the book. If you are accessing it off-site, you will be asked for identifying information.

Highly recommended book about WPF

• Nathan, Adam. Windows presentation foundation unleashed Sams, 2007

Other available WPF books

• MacDonald, Matthew Pro WPF in C# 2008 Windows Presentation Foundation With .Net 3.5 Berkeley : Apress L. P. Feb. 2008
• Andrade, Chris. Professional WPF programming .NET development with the Windows Presentation Foundation. Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., 2007
• Sells, Chris. Programming WPF 2nd Edition. Beijing ; Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2007.
• Feldman, Arlen WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008. New York : Manning Publications Company Nov. 2008 LaVergne : Ingram Publisher Services
• Jones, Allen WPF Recipes in C#. 2008. Berkeley : Apress L. P. Sept. 2008
• Noble, Sam. WPF recipes in C# 2008 a problem-solution approach. Berkeley, Calif. : Apress, 2008

Books about C#

From the Safari Books OnLine site, you can electronically access a myriad of C# books for free.

WPF Web Sites

Here are a few websites with helpful material for learning WPF (only a subset; there are many tutorials out there. Do a search; you will be surprised about what you can find).

• Course tutorials on WPF developed for 581 by Nic Marquardt
• Over 70 videos explain aspects of WPF programming
• Large collection of training material for WPF, .NET 3.5, and C#
• MSDN:WPF Examples - collection of WPF example applications
• MSDN: WPF forums - find answers to commonly asked questions
• MSDN: WPF - Many articles and tutorials on the Microsoft Developer Network website
• MSDN: Intro to WPF
• WPF FAQ - answers to commonly asked questions