WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is a far more flexible and powerful way to develop desktop apps than the outdated Windows Forms technique. As a authoritative programming guide to Microsoft's newer Windows desktop programming technique, Applications = Code + Markup covers the principle of core technology, concept, skill and development practice in Microsoft WPF.

Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows, 4th Edition is a treatise explaining the internal mechanism of Windows operating system. Meanwhile, it is also the well-deserved and unfailing bible for Windows programming. It's written by the esteemed Jeffrey Richter - the same author of another pinnacle work in the Windows programming field - Advanced Windows.