Home : Book details : Book description

Description of  HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating HLSL Pixel Shaders for WPF and Silverlight Applications

Pixel shaders are some of the more powerful graphic tools available for XAML programmers, but shader development bears little resemblance to traditional .NET programming. With this hands-on book, youll not only discover how to use existing shaders in your Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight applications, youll also learn how create your own effects with XAML and Microsofts HLSL shading language. In the process, youll write, compile, and test custom XAML shaders with the Shazzam Shader Editor, a free utility developed by author Walt Ritscher. The book includes XAML and C# sample code, and Shazzam contains all of the sample shaders discussed. Read more