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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

Introduction

While binary resources play a vital role in any application, WPF also provides a different kind of resource, called a logical resource. These logical resources are objects that can be shared throughout the application and can be accessed across multiple assemblies. These can be of two types, static logical resources and dynamic logical resources.

On the other hand, MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) is a pattern that keeps a separation between the UI and the code, giving the designers and developers the flexibility to work on a single window without depending on each other.

In this chapter, we will first cover binary resources, logical resources, and then move forward to learn building applications using the MVVM pattern. We will also cover how to use RoutedCommands to demonstrate the Command Design Pattern in WPF applications, which can be invoked from multiple locations.