Two WPF Titles from APress

APress have announced two upcoming WPF titles which are available for pre-order from Amazon.

The first is Foundations of WPF which is scheduled for release towards the end of November this year, and will be around 400 pages long. It will be devided into three sections covering "WPF in context", deeper dives into relevant areas of WPF and finally real-world perspectives on building WPF applications.

Foundations of WPF book cover

The second is Pro WPF scheduled for release in late January and weighing in at 800 pages. Topics it aims to cover are WPF basics (Xaml, layout, control essentials and data flow), WPF applications (navigation, commands, localization and deployment), Advanced Controls (the menu, toolbar and tree controls as well as authoring custom controls), WPF document support (printing, laying out text etc.) and finally graphics and multimedia (shapes, sound, video, animation)

Pro WPF book cover

With all the great reviewsCharles Petzold's book which is now available has been receiving, and the high standard set by Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths it will be interesting to see how these books stack up.