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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...

Once the project gets created, follow these steps to add a toolbar in the application window:

  1. Open the MainWindow.xaml page from the Solution Explorer.
  2. Now, replace the existing Grid with a DockPanel so that we can host the toolbar docking to the top of the window.
  3. Add a ToolBarTray element inside the DockPanel and dock it to Top.
  4. Add a ToolBar control inside the ToolBarTray and then add a few buttons inside it, as shown in the following XAML markup:
<ToolBarTray DockPanel.Dock="Top"> 
    <ToolBar> 
        <Button Content="B" FontWeight="Bold" 
                Width="20" 
                Click="OnBoldButtonClicked"/> 
        <Button Content="I" FontStyle="Italic" 
                Width="20"/> 
        <Button Width="20"> 
            <TextBlock Text="U"  
                       TextDecorations="Underline"/> 
        &lt...