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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 simple steps to add text in your application UI, using the Label control:

  1. Open the MainWindow.xaml file to change the application UI.
  2. Replace the existing Grid panel with the following XAML code:
<StackPanel Margin="10 10 10 20"> 
    <Label Content="1. This is a Label control" /> 
    <Label Content="2. A Label control with text formatting" 
            FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="Red" 
            FontStyle="Italic"/> 
    <Label> 
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> 
            <TextBlock Text="3. A Rectangle" /> 
            <Rectangle Width="20" Height="20" Fill="Red" 
Margin="10 0" /> <TextBlock Text="inside a Label control" /> </StackPanel> </Label> </StackPanel>
  1. Now build...