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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

Building a UI layout using a Grid

A Grid panel enables you to arrange child elements in tabular format, represented by cells in rows and columns. This is the default panel that you will see when you create a new WPF project and navigate to the MainWindow.xaml file. Visual Studio automatically adds this as the first container inside every window.

It is often useful when you want to represent data in a tabular or matrix form. It is also useful when creating a form layout.

In this recipe, we will discuss the Grid panel in detail, so that you can properly use it while designing your application layout.