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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...

In the preceding example, the ListBox control contains five items as ListBoxItem. When you launch the application, by default, the second item is selected due to its property IsSelected being set to True.

The two buttons are used to add or delete items in the Listbox control. Click on the + button to trigger the OnAddItemClicked event, which will create a new instance of the ListBoxItem and add it to the ListBox control. Scroll the list to see the newly added entry. As the SelectedItem property of the ListBox is assigned with the latest item, it will now get selected, removing the previous selection.

Click on the - button to trigger the OnDeleteItemClicked event. This will get the current selected item, and, if it is not null, it will be removed from the ListBox control. The property SelectedIndex will set to 0 (zero), to select the first element after deletion.