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Manipulating the Pages in a Document Printout 708 Custom Printing 710 Printing with the Visual Layer Classes 711 Custom Printing with Multiple Pages 714 Print Settings and Management 719 Maintaining Print Settings 720 Printing Page Ranges... ■MATTHEW MACDONALD is an author, educator, and Microsoft MVP in Windows client development He’s a regular contributor to programming journals and the author of more than a dozen books about NET programming, including Pro NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C# (Apress, 2005) and Pro ASP NET 3.5 in C# 2008 (Apress, 2007) He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter xxii 9551CH00 2/8/08 1:40... control getting its own piece of real estate As a result, there’s no good way for the painting in one control (for example, the glow effect behind a button) to spread into the area owned by another control And don’t even think about introducing animated effects such as spinning text, shimmering buttons, shrinking windows, or live previews because you’ll have to paint every detail by hand The Windows Presentation... warnings and irritating installation prompts Overall, WPF combines the best of the old world of Windows development with new innovations for building modern, graphically rich user interfaces Although Windows Forms applications will continue to live on for years, developers embarking on new Windows development projects should consider WPF ■ If you’ve done a substantial amount of work creating a Windows... that appeal directly to business developers, including a vastly improved data binding xxv 9551CH00 xxvi 2/8/08 1:40 PM Page xxvi ■INTRODUCTION model, a new set of classes for printing content and managing print queues, and a document feature for displaying large amounts of formatted text You’ll even get a new model for building page-based applications that run seamlessly in Internet Explorer and can... performs custom drawing Chapter 25: Interacting with Windows Forms examines how you can combine WPF and Windows Forms content in the same application—and even in the same window Chapter 26: Multithreading and Add-Ins describes two advanced topics You’ll use multithreading to create responsive WPF applications that perform time-consuming work in the background You’ll use the add -in model to create an extensible... 20 Printing 697 Basic Printing 697 Printing an Element 698 Transforming Printed Output 701 Printing Elements Without Showing Them 703 Printing a Document 704 Manipulating the... helpful individuals I’m deeply indebted to the whole Apress team, including Sofia Marchant and Laura Esterman, who shepherded this second edition through production, Kim Wimpsett, who speedily performed the copy edit, and many other individuals who worked behind the scenes indexing pages, drawing figures, and proofreading the final copy I also owe a special thanks to Gary Cornell, who always offers invaluable... 491 Binding to the Properties of an Element 491 Creating Bindings with Code 495 Multiple Bindings 496 9551CH00 2/8/08 1:40 PM Page xv ■CONTENTS Binding Direction 499 Binding Updates 502 Binding to Objects That... 6 Dependency Properties and Routed Events 137 Understanding Dependency Properties 137 Defining and Registering a Dependency Property 138 How WPF Uses Dependency Properties 147 Understanding Routed Events 149 Defining and Registering a Routed Event 149 Attaching an Event . 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