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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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As the ToolTip property is of object type, you can assign anything to it, including various UI controls. Hence, it helps you to customize the UI of the tooltip with a much richer experience.

Let's modify the Tooltip property of the third button in the preceding example. Place a few TextBlock and Border controls in a StackPanel to design the UI, as shared in the following XAML code snippet:

<Button Content="Save" Width="60" Height="30"  
    Margin="4"> 
    <Button.ToolTip> 
        <StackPanel> 
            <TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" 
                       Text="Save File" /> 
            <TextBlock Text="Clicking on this button, 
saves the file to disk" FontSize="10" /> <Border BorderBrush="Silver" BorderThickness="0,1,0,0" ...