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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 DockPanel.Dock property determines the position of the element, based on the relative order. The property is of type Dock enumeration and it accepts the following values—Dock.Left, Dock.Right, Dock.Top, and Dock.Bottom. If you don't specify the property, by default, the first element will be docked to the left and the other elements will take the remaining space.

In the preceding example, the labels are added inside the DockPanel in the following order, having the DockPanel.Dock property set to Right, Top, Bottom, and Left, respectively. The last label does not specify any Dock property and hence it takes the remaining space to accommodate itself inside it.