{"id":82,"date":"2006-12-18T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2006-12-18T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T18:09:53","slug":"free-preview-chapter-of-adam-nathans-wpf-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/82-free-preview-chapter-of-adam-nathans-wpf-book.html","title":{"rendered":"Free preview chapter of Adam Nathan&#8217;s WPF book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will know Microsoft&#8217;s Adam Nathan as the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/067232170X\/itwriting-20\" target=\"_blank\">.NET and COM<\/a>, still the best book available for drilling deep into the way .NET interops with native code. He&#8217;s now written a guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation, one of the key components of the new Windows API. I&#8217;ll be reviewing the book in due course, but in the meantime the publishers have kindly given permission for me to offer a free chapter to readers of this blog. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/nathan_ch03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download Chapter 3, Important New Concepts in WPF [PDF]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/nathan_cover.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Chapter 3 covers WPF logical trees, dependency properties, routed events, commands, and the overall class hierarchy. <\/p>\n<p>If you like the book, you can order it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0672328917\/itwriting-20\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan: Windows Presentation Foundation (US customers)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0672328917\/onlyconnectsyste\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan: Windows Presentation Foundation (UK customers)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:372c5bb6-82fd-44b6-90f9-b0d49b88528d\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/wfp\" rel=\"tag\">wfp<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will know Microsoft&#8217;s Adam Nathan as the author of .NET and COM, still the best book available for drilling deep into the way .NET interops with native code. He&#8217;s now written a guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation, one of the key components of the new Windows API. I&#8217;ll be reviewing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/82-free-preview-chapter-of-adam-nathans-wpf-book.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free preview chapter of Adam Nathan&#8217;s WPF book<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}