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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 to do it...

Follow these steps to host a WinForm control inside a WPF application window and map its properties:

  1. Begin with opening the WPF application window. From Solution Explorer, open the MainWindow.xaml file.

  1. Let's split the default Grid panel to have two columns. The second column will have a width based on its child elements, and the first column will accommodate the rest of the space. Add the following XAML mark-up inside Grid to split it by the specific requirement:
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/> 
    <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/> 
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
  1. Place a TextBlock control inside the first cell (0th column) of Grid, name it as txtBlock, and set Hello World! as its Text property:
<TextBlock x:Name="txtBlock" 
           Grid.Column="0" 
           Margin="8" 
           Text="Hello World!"/> 
  1. Now, after the TextBlock control, add...