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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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It's not easy to remember the default template body of the controls. It is also not possible to remember each control part, defined as PART_Name. Visual Studio provides an effortless way to modify the template.

To do this, right-click on the control and follow the context menu entry Edit Template | Edit a Copy..., as shown in the following screenshot:

This will open up a dialog window to specify the file where you want to create the style. If you select Application, it will be created under the Application.Resources tag and will be accessible throughout the application.

If you choose This document, it will get created under the Window.Resources tag:

From this screen, you also have an option of whether to create an implicit or explicit style. Select Apply to all to create an implicit style, and all controls of that type will get the same style within that scope. In another case, give it a Key name. Once you click OK, it will create the default template in the...