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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

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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Using WPF Standard Controls

Creating ownership between windows

In the WPF application, the window objects that you create are independent of each other by default. But, sometimes, you may want to create an owner-owned relationship between them. For example, the toolbox window that you generally see in your Visual Studio IDE and/or in a Photoshop application.

When you set an owner of a window, it acts according to the owner instance. For example, if you minimize or close the owner window, the other window under the owner-owned relationship automatically minimizes or closes according to its owner.

Let's begin creating this recipe to have an owner-owned relationship between two windows.