Riordan, R: Fluent C

Getting Started Introduction. 1 Fluent Learning Because This book isn't for everyone What you'll learn What you'll need How it works Application Development 9 The development process System design Creating executables The .NET Platform 43 .NET components Say hello Say what? The Visual Studio UI. 67 Solutions, projects and stuff Take control Get some help Testing & Deployment 95 Errors & exceptions Deployment The Language Part 1: Nouns 123 Statements Declared elements Comments Directives & attributes Part 2: Transitive Verbs 155 Literal expressions Object expressions Part 3: Intransitive Verbs 181 Control of flow commands Exception handling commands The .NET Framework Library Classes in the .NET Framework 223 The Class Designer Class definitions Fields & properties Methods Other Framework Types 271 Structures Enumerations Interfaces Working with types The Class Library, Part 1 309 Namespaces The Object Browser Numeric data Character data Times & dates The Class Library, Part 2 353 Arrays Specialized sets Generics best practice OOA & D 385 Type relationships OOP principles Type modifiers Programming Principles 427 The Single Responsibility Principle The Open/Closed Principle The Liskov Substitution Principle The Law of Demeter Patterns 459 The Strategy Pattern The Observer Pattern Architectural Patterns wpf XAML 501 Fundamentals WPF types XAML & C# WPF Controls 531 WPF panels Control classes Content controls Items controls Dependency Properties 591 The basics Creating dependency properties WPF Interactions 627 Routed events WPF Commands WPF Graphics 665 Color Brushes Pens Typography Effects Resources 715 Resource dictionaries Styles Property triggerrs Event triggers Templates 761 Building controls Building control templates The VisualStateManager WPF Binding 793 Creating bindings Binding to collections Working with collections Index 842

Rebecca M. Riordan has an international reputation as an author and application architect. Her ability to make complex technical subjects accessible and understandable has earned her books a devoted following. In 2004, her book, Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET was nominated for the prestigious Jolt award.