Practical WPF Charts and Graphics: Advanced Chart and Graphics Programming with the Windows Presentation Foundation
- 7h 59m
- Jack Xu
- Apress
- 2009
Creating 2D and 3D charts is one of the most common uses of computer graphics. Such charts can have wide applications in representing mathematical, physical, and economic functions in your daily life. Whether you are an engineer, a quantitative analyst, a teacher, or a student, you will end up dealing with charting applications to some degree.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a next-generation graphics platform that enables you to build advanced user interfaces incorporating documents, media, 2D and 3D graphics, and animations. It is an ideal development tool that allows you to not only generate data, but also easily represent data graphically.
Practical WPF Charts and Graphics provides all the tools you will need to develop professional chart and graphics applications in WPF and C#. This book will be useful for WPF and C# programmers of all skill levels, providing a complete and comprehensive explanation of WPF’s graphics capability and the creation of various charts, and paying special attention to the details of code implementation.
What you'll learn
- Understand the types of charts that can be developed in WPF and how WPF can be used to maximum effect in their development
- Develop a wide range of charts that consist of not only simple 2D and 3D graphs, but also the multimedia elements, embedded documents, and animations now commonly found in cutting-edge applications
- Adapt the wide selection of fully working demonstration charts that are provided with the book and integrate them into your own web site for instant results
About the Author
Jack Xu has a Ph.D in theoretical physics and has over 15 years of programming experience in Basic, Fortran, C, C++, Matlab, and C#. He specializes in numerical computation methods, algorithms, physical modeling, computer-aided design (CAD) tool development, graphical user interfaces, and 3D graphics. He is the author of several books about .NET programming, including Practical C# Charts and Graphics, Practical WPF Graphics Programming, Practical Silverlight Programming, and Practical Numerical Methods with C#
In this Book
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Overview of WPF Programming
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2D Transformations
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WPF Graphics Basics in 2D
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Colors and Brushes
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2D Line Charts
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Specialized 2D Charts
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Stock Charts
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Interactive 2D Charts
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2D Chart Controls
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Data Interpolations
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Curve Fitting
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3D Transformations
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WPF Graphics Basics in 3D
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3D Charts with the WPF 3D Engine
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3D Charts Without the WPF 3D Engine
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Specialized 3D Charts
