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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

By : Yuen
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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

By: 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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Dependency Properties

We've already seen some examples of Dependency Properties in previous chapters, but now let's take a more thorough look. We have a large number of options that we can use when declaring these properties, some more commonly used than others. Let's investigate the standard declaration first, by defining an Hours property of type int in a class named DurationPicker.

public static readonly DependencyProperty HoursProperty =
  DependencyProperty.Register(nameof(Hours), typeof(int), 
  typeof(DurationPicker)); 
 
public int Hours 
{  
  get { return (int)GetValue(HoursProperty); } 
  set { SetValue(HoursProperty, value); }  
} 

As with all Dependency Properties, we start by declaring the property as static and readonly, because we only want a single, immutable instance of it. This also enables us to access it without an instance of our class.

Note that this readonly declaration does not mean that we cannot set the value of our property. Unlike normal CLR properties...