WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 Free Download

The combination of WPF and Visual Studio 2008 represents the start of the next generation of Windows applications. Hand-coding XAML is fine if you're an early adopter, but to put WPF into production, you need to master the tools and application styles you'll use in your day job.
This book goes from a brief history of Windows Forms and WPF to Hello World in part one, then to describing layouts, styles, triggers, events and animations in the second part. The third goes to create a wiki application using commands and binding, datatemplates, converters, triggers, validation, then custom controls and drawing (including 3D!). I am a big fan of the MVVM pattern, but I liked that in this book, while it got described, it didn't suffocate the other topics, getting only a small subchapter in the binding section. The fourth part explains navigation, XBAP, goes briefly through ClickOnce and Silverlight, then has a large chapter about printing (too large, I believe). The book finishes with transition effects, interoperability with Windows Forms and 

threading.

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wpf control development unleashed Free Download

When we build an application that presents data to the user in a way that is elegant, intuitive, and well designed, that user is encouraged to interact with the data. If the way in which that user interacts with the data is handled responsively and smoothly by our application, the user will be encouraged to continue using the application, and the data that changes as a result will have even more meaning than it did just moments ago because the user is now having a positive experience with the application. The combination of features provided by WPF, plus the ability to smoothly and elegantly respond to user behavior, and the ability to dynamically provide beautiful renderings of raw data make WPF a fantastic toolkit for building the best applications available on Windows today.

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WPF Programmer's Reference By Rod Stephens

WIndoWs PresentatIon FoundatIon (WPF)  is Microsoft’s next evolutionary step in user interface 
(UI) development. While WPF lets you drop controls on forms just as developers have been doing 
for years, WPF provides a quantum leap beyond what is possible using Windows Forms. WPF lets 
you use a consistent development model to build applications that run in more environments, on 
more hardware, using more graphical tools, and providing a more engaging visual experience than is 
normally possible with Windows Forms.

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