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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

Navigating through XAML elements using Live Visual Tree

Live Visual Tree is a debugger tool that helps you to perform XAML debugging more easily. Using this, you can inspect the XAML at runtime and visualize the layout to show alignments and space for UI elements.

Basically, Live Visual Tree provides you a tree view of the UI elements of your running XAML application, and provides information about the number of XAML elements inside each container. If the interface changes from one state to another, Live Visual Tree also changes in runtime.

In this recipe, we will learn more about Live Visual Tree and how to use it to visualize the actual control rendering on the UI.