WPF Unleashed: The perfect stocking stuffer!

This weekend I entered the final phase of tweaking and reviewing, so WPF Unleashed is on the verge of being printed!  The book is now scheduled to be available right before the new year (December 27, according to Amazon).  Although this isn't quite in time for most of the upcoming holidays, perhaps you now know what to do with any Amazon gift certificates or cash you might receive!  Or maybe I should have changed the title of this post to "Reading WPF Unleashed: A New Year's resolution you can actually accomplish!"

There are two things that I'm really excited about that I haven't mentioned before:

  • It's got an in-depth chapter on 3D by none other than Daniel Lehenbauer, the guy who implemented WPF 3D!
  • The entire book is printed in full color!  Not only does this mean stunning figures, but the C# and XAML (and some C++) has syntax coloring just like in Visual Studio!

Although I like to think that the content is top-notch, if nothing else the book is bound to be the most beautiful .NET book around!  I've been really impressed with how well the publishing team has been putting it together.  I did a lot of things that made it difficult to produce: the coloring, callouts within figures, callouts within code listings, intricate diagrams, four kinds of sidebars, and so on.  It's caused plenty of headaches and late nights, but I think readers will greatly benefit from this extra effort.  Below are a few random snapshots of pages (or parts of pages) to whet your appetite...

Pieces of WPF Unleashed

Published 13 November 06 06:21 by Adam Nathan
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Comments

# matt said on November 13, 2006 11:15 AM:

Sounds great! Having been greatly disappointed in the overall quality of Petzold's book, it is good to see that you are spending time polishing this offering. I'll definitely be buying a copy.

# Chris said on November 13, 2006 2:12 PM:

This is great news Adam, I will definitely reserve my copy!  I have been reading Petzold's book and it is very good for building a solid grasp on the coding perspective of WPF.  However, I am a software developer with strong design skills.  I've been WAITING for a book, like yours, to come out.

Chris

# Daniel Fortunov said on November 14, 2006 8:04 AM:

Wow, that's excellent that you've taken the effort to put this together so nicely. It looks like a glossy magazine (though with less pages of advertising, I hope :-)

I think there's considerable value to be had from coloured code, diagrams, and other visual queues.

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# manzaa said on December 15, 2006 1:46 AM:

gr8 site buddy its rreally full of cool links . nice collection . thanks keep going.

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# Tom Kirby-Green said on January 5, 2007 4:46 AM:

Got my order in with Amazon.com - it seems like maybe there's been another printers delay - not having any of that... Safari to the rescue! Anyway it's a great book Adam, serious kudos! I'm not only learning lots, I'm having obscene amounts of fun doing it :-)

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