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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

Adding click-event handlers to menus

Menus are not just to add to the application; you need to perform some actions on the menu with a click by adding the Click event handler, as shown in the following code snippet:

<MenuItem Header="E_xit" Click="OnExitMenuClicked" /> 

In the code behind, implement the handler, as shown in the following code:

private void OnExitMenuClicked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) 
{ 
    MessageBox.Show("'Exit' menu item clicked!"); 
    Environment.Exit(0); 
} 

This will first show a message box and then exit the application when the user clicks on the Exit menu item.