by Donald Burnett
Microsoft Expression Blend Bible
by Gurdy Leete and Mary Leete
Expression Studio has found itself without much coverage book-wise. This is quickly changing ,however, and this book is a wealth of information aimed at people new to Expression Blend. If you are new to design concepts, you will also enjoy this book because not only does it give you the technical background you need to start to create WPF applications (This book covers Expression Blend 1.0) but gives you many great examples of assembling an application. This book covers tool-by-tool all of the capabilities of Expression Blend. It also goes outside the realm of Blend and into Visual Studio for some of the more exotic capabilities of Blend to create things such as XBAP browser application. Exemplary chapters include the one on XML databinding. There is also great coverage on a subject most books and documentation is missing, when it comes to XAML, navigation across a multi-page application using the in-built "navigation" services. This makes tasks such as creating an application that uses menus and hyperlinks very easy to create. Many people consider the documentation Microsoft provides on this functionality lacking basic functionality. This is one book that delivers with great illustrated examples.
I find the book a very easy read and very comprehensive. It covers most of what you need to get started in WPF and XAML. If you are looking for extensive Silverlight coverage I suspect that will happen in a later version of the book as the author gets time to review Expression Blend version 2.
I whole heartedly recommend this book. Buy it today!
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