WPF

Illustrated WPF
$44.99
Windows Presentation Foundation is Microsoft¡Çs newest API for creating Windows applications. It gives the programmer the ability to produce dazzling, graphics?rich programs easily without having to delve into the messy details of the graphics subsystem. To use this power, however, the programmer must learn new concepts for laying out pages and displaying graphics. Illustrated WPF presents these concepts clearly and visually?making them easier to understand and retain. What you¡Çll learn The important new concepts underlying programming in WPF, including the visual tree, the logical tree, dependency properties, and routed events. The XAML markup language and how it is used to create and initialize objects in WPF. You¡Çll also learn how XAML and C# code work together to producing stunning programs. How to lay out screens and graphics using WPF¡Çs various panel types, and how to achieve a consistent visual appearance throughout a program, using resources, styles, and templates. How to bind visual elements to data sources. How to perform graphics transformations to produce eye?catching displays, and how to use animation to produce pages that are alive with action. How to use the WPF document types for text layout and navigation.
Who is this book for This book is for C# programmers wanting to learn to program Microsoft¡Çs latest method of building stunning Windows programs?Windows Presentation Foundation. They could be web programmers familiar with ASP.NET or programmers coming from Windows Forms. This book is designed for those who want a concise but thorough, visual presentation of the platform. It is not for those who want a long, leisurely, verbose explanation of the platform.

WPF Control Development Unleashed: Building Advanced User Experiences
$49.99
If you have experience with WPF this is an excellent book. It may not have all the detailed code but has all the meaty topics you need. If it had code for every little thing it talks about it would probably be a 900-page book and much less appealing. This is a 350-page book but very dense. Every page has tons of useful information.
It's a nice complement to Adam Nathan's book (ISBN 0672628917).

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours
$44.99
This book does a great job of quickly teaching WPF. I tend to read shorter books that just give me the information using simple examples - I can figure out the rest. The book does carry a few examples across multiple chapters, which I generally don't like, but they made it quick and understandable.

Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Second Edition (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
$54.99
I purchased many of the WPF books out there for myself and my team. This book has become my new favorite (with Chris Sells WPF book coming in second - sorry Chris!). The book goes into more details about why things work the way they do instead of just saying this is how it should be done. Books that provide deep understanding of a topic are hard to find in today's mantra of pushing low budget tech books out the door for copy and paste code examples. The author finds just the right balance of code, pictures and words. With this book you get 800 pages of information and not 800 pages of code examples printed page after page after page.