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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

By : Kunal Chowdhury
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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

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By: Kunal Chowdhury
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Overview of this book

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is Microsoft's development tool for building rich Windows client user experiences that incorporate UIs, media, and documents. With the updates in .NET 4.7, Visual Studio 2017, C# 7, and .NET Standard 2.0, WPF has taken giant strides and is now easier than ever for developers to use. If you want to get an in-depth view of WPF mechanics and capabilities, then this book is for you. The book begins by teaching you about the fundamentals of WPF and then quickly shows you the standard controls and the layout options. It teaches you about data bindings and how to utilize resources and the MVVM pattern to maintain a clean and reusable structure in your code. After this, you will explore the animation capabilities of WPF and see how they integrate with other mechanisms. Towards the end of the book, you will learn about WCF services and explore WPF's support for debugging and asynchronous operations. By the end of the book, you will have a deep understanding of WPF and will know how to build resilient applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Conventions used
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WPF Fundamentals
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WPF Fundamentals
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Introduction
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The WPF Architecture
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Presentation Framework
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Presentation Core
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Common Language Runtime
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Media Integration Library
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OS Core
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Types of WPF applications
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The XAML overview
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XAML syntax terminologies
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Object element syntax
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Property Attribute syntax
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Property Element syntax
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Content syntax
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Collection syntax
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Event Attribute syntax
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Installing WPF Workload with Visual Studio 2017
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Creating WPF applications
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Creating and navigating from one window to another
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Creating and navigating from one page to another
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Creating a dialog box
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Using the open file dialog
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Using the save file dialog
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Using the print dialog
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Creating ownership between windows
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Creating a single instance application
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Passing arguments to WPF applications
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Handling unhandled exceptions
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Using WPF Standard Controls
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Using WPF Standard Controls
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Using the TextBlock control to add plain text
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Using Label to add other controls in text
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Providing a user option to input text
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Windows Clipboard support
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Adding spellcheck support
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Adding images to your application UI
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Working with ready-to-use 2D shapes
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Adding tooltips to show additional information
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Adding a standard menu to the WPF application
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Adding an access key to menus
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Adding icons to menus
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Adding checkable menu items
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Adding click-event handlers to menus
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Providing extra functionalities using the context menu
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Adding user options with radio buttons and checkboxes
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Working with the progress bar control
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Using the Slider control to pick a numeric value
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Using the Calendar control in your application
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The SelectionModes property
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The DisplayDate property
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The DisplayMode property
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The BlackoutDates property
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Listing items in a Listbox control
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Implementing multi selection
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Customizing the ListBoxItem with multiple controls
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Providing options to select from a ComboBox
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Adding a status bar to your window
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Adding a toolbar panel to perform quick tasks
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Layouts and Panels
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Layouts and Panels
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Building a UI layout using a Grid
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Creating a resizable Grid
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Spanning elements across multiple rows and/or columns
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Placing elements in uniform cells
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Setting the row and column count
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Defining the first cell of the UniformGrid
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Filling elements from right to left
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Automatically repositioning controls using WrapPanel
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Placing controls in a Stack
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Positioning controls inside a Canvas
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Wrapping UI elements using a Border
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Creating a scrollable panel
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Docking controls using the DockPanel
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Rescaling UI elements using a ViewBox
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Creating a tabbed layout
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Dynamically adding/removing elements in a panel
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Implementing the drag and drop feature
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Working with Data Bindings
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Working with CLR properties and UI notifications
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Working with dependency properties
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Working with attached properties
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Data binding to an object
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Element-to-element data binding
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Sorting data in a DataGrid control
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Grouping data in a DataGrid control
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Filtering data in a DataGrid control
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Using static bindings
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Using value converters
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Using multi-value converters
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Using Custom Controls and User Controls
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Using Custom Controls and User Controls
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Creating a custom control
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XMLNS attribute declaration
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Default styling
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Customizing the template of a custom control
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Exposing properties from the custom control
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Exposing events from a custom control
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Creating a User Control interface
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Using Styles, Templates, and Triggers
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Creating the style of a control
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Creating the Style of a control based on another Style
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Applying Style to a control automatically
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Editing the template of any control
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Creating a property trigger
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Creating a data trigger
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Creating a multi data trigger
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Creating an event trigger
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Using Resources and MVVM Patterns
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Using Resources and MVVM Patterns
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Using binary resources inside a WPF application
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Using binary resources from another assembly
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Accessing binary resources in code
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Using static logical resources in WPF
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Using dynamic logical resources in WPF
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Managing logical resources
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Using user selected colors and fonts
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Building an application using the MVVM pattern
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Using routed commands in a WPF application
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Working with Animations
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Scaling an element while rendering
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Rotating an element while rendering
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Skewing an element while rendering
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Moving an element while rendering
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Grouping multiple transforms
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Creating property-based animations
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Creating path-based animations
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Creating key-frame-based animations
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Adding easing effects to animations
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Using WCF Services
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Hosting a WCF service in an IIS server
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Integrating a WCF service in a WPF application
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Debugging and Threading
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Enabling the UI debugging tool for XAML
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Navigating through XAML elements using Live Visual Tree
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Inspecting XAML properties using Live Property Explorer
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Updating the UI from a non-UI thread
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Adding cancelation support to long running threads
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Using the background worker component
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Using a timer to periodically update the UI
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Interoperability with Win32 and WinForm
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Hosting WinForm controls in WPF applications
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Calling Win32 APIs from WPF applications
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Embedding ActiveX controls in WPF applications
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WPF Fundamentals

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Installing WPF Workload with Visual Studio 2017
  • Creating WPF applications
  • Creating and navigating from one window to another
  • Creating and navigating from one page to another
  • Creating a dialog box
  • Creating ownership between windows
  • Creating a single instance application
  • Passing arguments to WPF applications
  • Handling unhandled exceptions
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