Includes chapters on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with an appendix that covers Microsoft's WPF/E platform for delivering UI through standard web browsers - much like Adobe Flash. This book explains and compares the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications.

Mastering Visual Studio .NET provides the experienced programmer with all the information needed to get the most out of the latest development tool from Microsoft. The book covers the basics inside Visual Studio .NET, like creating a project, typing some code, and compiling and debugging.

Serving as a guide to using the Microsoft .NET forms package, this title helps readers learn how to build applications that take full advantage of both the rich user interface features of the Microsoft Windows operating system and the deployment features traditionally associated with HTML-based applications.

Presents a guide to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a presentation framework for Windows XP and Windows Vista. This book covers WPF framework and its major elements, including the XAML markup language, the mapping of XAML to WinFX code; the WPF content model; layout; controls, styles, and templates; graphics, and more.

Teaches how to build and deploy leading-edge Windows Forms 2.0 applications. This book is suitable for those who are new to the technology or experienced developers who want to learn what's new in Version 2.0.

The Active Template Library (ATL) is a set of small, efficient, and flexible classes created by Microsoft that facilitate the creation of interoperable components for developing Windows applications. The latest version of ATL is version 8, released with Visual Studio 2005. While .NET has been getting all the attention recently, there is still a huge base of installed COM/ATL code. Many ...