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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 it works...

The BorderThickness property accepts an integer value to draw a border around the control. The property BorderBrush adds a color to it. You can use SolidColorBrush, GradientColorBrush, or any other brush type. The first Border control adds a thin 2px border around the text.

In the second example, the CornerRadius property has been set to 20 to add a 20-degree curve around the corners of the Border control.

The third example has a border with a background brush to wrap the TextBlock control. You can club both the BorderThickness, BorderBrush, and Background properties together to give such a look. Notice the small corner radius of 5 degrees!

In the fourth example, we have provided a border to two sides of the text. The value of BorderThickness can have 1, 2, or 4 double values. The four doubles (BorderThickness="5, 3, 5, 4" or BorderThickness="5 3 5 4") describes the Left, Top, Right, and Bottom sides in the same order.

When you provide two double values...