Who Should Not Read This Book

If you are completely unfamiliar with WPF and Silverlight, or if you’re not comfortable reading and writing C# or Visual Basic code, this book is not for you. This book does not include a detailed explanation of the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern; if you’re looking for that information, take a look at:

  • Raffaele Garofalo’s Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern (Microsoft Press, 2011)

  • Gary Hall’s Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM: Effective Application Development with Model-View-ViewModel (Expert’s Voice in WPF) (Apress, 2010)

This book also does not cover XAML for Windows 8—the timing of this edition of book precluded including that information with ...

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