The book "Practical WPF Charts and Graphics - Advanced Chart and Graphics Programming with the Windows Presentation Foundation" is available now. You can order the book at Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, and other bookstores worldwide.
If you've picked up this book, then you must know how important charts and graphics are in every Windows application. Whether you're a professional programmer, a scientist, an engineer, a teacher, or a student, you will always end up dealing with chart and graphics applications to some degree.
I've been working with charts and graphics for many years. As a theoretical physicist, my work involves extensive numerical computations and graphical representations of calculated data. I still remember how hard it was in the early days to present computational results graphically. I often spent hours creating publication-quality charts by hand, using a ruler, graph paper, and rub-off lettering. Around that time, I started paying attention to various development tools I could use to create integrated applications. The C# and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) development environment made it possible to create such integrated applications because the .NET platform is one of the best development tools available that provides the computational capabilities to both generate data as a simulation engine and to display it in a variety of graphical representations.
I wrote this book with the intention of providing you with a comprehensive explanation of WPF chart and graphics capability, and I paid special attention to creating various charts that can be used directly for real-world applications. In this book, I wanted to show you how to create a variety of graphics and charts that range from simple two-dimensional (2D) line plots to complicated three-dimensional (3D) surface graphs.
In short, this is more than just a book-it's a powerful 2D and 3D charts and graphics package. You will find that many of the examples in the book can be immediately used in your real-world applications, and that many others will inspire you to create advanced graphical and sophisticated chart capabilities of your own.
This book contains: