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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

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The PathGeometry objects are used to draw lines, curves, arcs, and complex shapes. WPF provides two classes to describe the geometric paths using the mini language Path Markup Syntax.

You can learn more about it here:
http://bit.ly/path-markup-syntax

If you want to draw simple shapes, you can use the EllipseGeometry, LineGeometry, and RectangleGeometry objects. Composite geometries are created by GeometryGroup and to create combine geometries, use the CombineGeometry.

Let's take the following example to demonstrate a complex path geometry using a PathSegmentCollection of three segments:

<Path Stroke="DarkBlue" StrokeThickness="5"> 
    <Path.Data> 
        <PathGeometry> 
            <PathGeometry.Figures> 
                <PathFigureCollection> 
                    <PathFigure StartPoint="10,100"> 
                        <PathFigure.Segments> 
                            <PathSegmentCollection...