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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

By : Sheridan Yuen

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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

4.1 (8)

By: Sheridan Yuen

Overview of this book

Windows Presentation Foundation is rich in possibilities when it comes to delivering an excellent user experience. This book will show you how to build professional-grade applications that look great and work smoothly. We start by providing you with a foundation of knowledge to improve your workflow – this includes teaching you how to build the base layer of the application, which will support all that comes after it. We’ll also cover the useful details of data binding. Next, we cover the user interface and show you how to get the most out of the built-in and custom WPF controls. The final section of the book demonstrates ways to polish your applications, from adding practical animations and data validation to improving application performance. The book ends with a tutorial on how to deploy your applications and outlines potential ways to apply your new-found knowledge so you can put it to use right away.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

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1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF

1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF

What is MVVM and how does it help?

Debunking the myth about code behind

Learning how to communicate again

Structuring the application code base

Summary

2. Debugging WPF Applications

2. Debugging WPF Applications

Utilizing the Output window

Putting Presentation Trace Sources to work

Discovering inner exceptions

Debugging data bound values

Summary

3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks

3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks

What is an application framework?

Encapsulating common functionality

Constructing a custom application framework

Separating the Data Access Layer

Providing services

Summary

4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding

4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding

Data binding basics

Dependency Properties

Data templates

Data binding to enumeration collections

Summary

5. Using the Right Controls for the Job

5. Using the Right Controls for the Job

Investigating the built-in controls

Modifying existing controls

Combining controls

Creating custom controls

Summary

6. Mastering Practical Animations

6. Mastering Practical Animations

Investigating timelines

Introducing key-frames

Telling stories

Easing functions

Animating along a path

Creating everyday animations

Summary

7. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces

7. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces

Styling applications consistently

Layering visuals

Moving away from the ordinary

Summary

8. Implementing Responsive Data Validation

8. Implementing Responsive Data Validation

Using validation rules - To do or not to do?

Getting to grips with validation interfaces

Annotating data

Varying levels of validation

Incorporating multiple validation techniques

Customizing the error template

Avoiding UI-based validation errors

Amalgamating validation and visuals

Summary

9. Completing That Great User Experience

9. Completing That Great User Experience

Providing user feedback

Utilizing multiple threads

Going the extra mile

Summary

10. Improving Application Performance

10. Improving Application Performance

Leveraging the power of hardware rendering

Making more efficient resources

Using the right controls for performance

Data binding

Shrinking data objects

Virtualizing collections

Handling events

Summary

11. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application

11. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application

Installing Windows applications

Utilizing ClickOnce functionality

Accessing application versions

Summary

12. What Next?

12. What Next?

Turning attention to future projects

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Turning attention to future projects

You could apply the concepts and ideas from this book to other areas and continue to experiment and explore their effect in these new areas. For example, we've learnt about Adorner objects, so you could use that new found knowledge to implement some visual feedback for the common drag and drop functionality in the main window's adorner layer.

You could then further extend this idea, using what you've discovered about Attached Properties, and completely encapsulate this drag and drop functionality, enabling the developers that utilize your application framework to make use of this feature in a property-based manner.

For example, you could create a DragDropProperties class that declared Attached Properties, such as IsDragSource, IsDragTarget, DragEffects, DragDropType and DropCommand, and could be extended by your relevant Attached Property classes, such as a ListBoxProperties class.

You could then declare a BaseDragDropManager class to be...

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