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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

How it works...

CancellationTokenSource represents a logical operation that can be canceled. The Token property of CancellationTokenSource provides the token object that provides the part of the logical operation.

Whenever the Cancel() method gets called on the CancellationTokenSource object, all distributed tokens from that source get their IsCancellationRequested property set as true.

In our example, the for loop inside our CalculateOddEven method polls the IsCancellationRequested property and fills the totalOdd and totalEven member variables with -1, which can be used to understand that a cancellation call was performed. Based on that value, the Operation canceled! message gets displayed on the screen.