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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

Handling unhandled exceptions

Exception handling is a vital part of software development. When an exception occurs at runtime, due to any error in the code, we handle those with a try {} catch {} block. The try {} block contains the code where the exception occurred; the catch {} block knows how to handle that, based on the type of the exception. After the exception has been handled, the normal execution of the program continues without affecting the application.

Though, in most of the cases we handle, there could be cases that may go unnoticed and come into the picture at runtime. Such an unhandled exception crashes the application. In this recipe, we will learn how to catch the unhandled exceptions in the WPF application and close the application properly.