<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the recommended technology for creating user interfaces in .NET applications - whether you're creating traditional user interfaces or integrating 3D graphics, multimedia, animation, dynamic skinning, rich document support, speech recognition, or more. It is also a superset of Silverlight, so you can leverage the same knowledge, code, and tools even when targeting cross-platform, cross-device applications inside or outside a Web browser. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The first edition of <B>Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed</B> was not only the best selling book on WPF 3.5, but was also commonly acclaimed as the best book on the subject. It was widely praised for the clarity of the writing, the thoroughness of the coverage, the practicality of the examples, and the sophistication of its form and style. This new edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors, while adding information on the many new features in WPF 4.5. </P>