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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

By : Sheridan Yuen
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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

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By: Sheridan Yuen
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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)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF
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1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF
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What is MVVM and how does it help?
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Debunking the myth about code behind
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Learning how to communicate again
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Structuring the application code base
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Summary
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2. Debugging WPF Applications
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2. Debugging WPF Applications
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Utilizing the Output window
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Putting Presentation Trace Sources to work
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Discovering inner exceptions
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Debugging data bound values
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3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks
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3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks
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What is an application framework?
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Encapsulating common functionality
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Constructing a custom application framework
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Separating the Data Access Layer
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Providing services
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4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding
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4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding
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Data binding basics
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Dependency Properties
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Data templates
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Data binding to enumeration collections
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5. Using the Right Controls for the Job
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5. Using the Right Controls for the Job
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Investigating the built-in controls
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Modifying existing controls
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Combining controls
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Creating custom controls
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6. Mastering Practical Animations
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6. Mastering Practical Animations
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Investigating timelines
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Introducing key-frames
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Telling stories
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Easing functions
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Animating along a path
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Creating everyday animations
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7. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces
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7. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces
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Styling applications consistently
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Layering visuals
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Moving away from the ordinary
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8. Implementing Responsive Data Validation
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8. Implementing Responsive Data Validation
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Using validation rules - To do or not to do?
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Getting to grips with validation interfaces
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Annotating data
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Varying levels of validation
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Incorporating multiple validation techniques
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Customizing the error template
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Avoiding UI-based validation errors
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Amalgamating validation and visuals
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9. Completing That Great User Experience
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9. Completing That Great User Experience
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Providing user feedback
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Utilizing multiple threads
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Going the extra mile
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10. Improving Application Performance
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10. Improving Application Performance
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Leveraging the power of hardware rendering
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Making more efficient resources
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Using the right controls for performance
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Data binding
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Shrinking data objects
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Virtualizing collections
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Handling events
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11. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application
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11. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application
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Installing Windows applications
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Utilizing ClickOnce functionality
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Accessing application versions
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12. What Next?
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12. What Next?
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Turning attention to future projects

Going the extra mile

Most privately developed applications are primarily functional, with little time and effort spent on design concerns and even less on usability. How many times have we seen applications that throw out a stack trace to the end user when an error occurs, or validation messages that highlight errors with the camel case code names for fields, rather than the labels used in the UI?

In a good application, the end user should never be presented with any code-based terminology. If we were writing an English based application, we wouldn't output error messages in Spanish, so why output them in C#? This can confuse the user and even alarm them in some cases.

How many times have you used an application that has an awkward process flow to perform each task, that involves far more mouse clicks than is necessary? This section is dedicated to avoiding these kinds of situations and suggests a number of ways of improving the usability of our applications.

Producing in-application...

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