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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)
2
Using WPF Standard Controls

How to do it...

Follow these simple steps to register the routed command to the button click and perform the operation:

  1. From the Solution Explorer, right-click on the project node and create a folder named Commands.

  1. Right-click on the Commands folder and create a new class named RoutedCommands.cs by following the Add | Class... context menu path.
  2. Inside the class implementation, declare a static member of type RoutedCommand and name it AddCommand. Here's the code implementation:
public class RoutedCommands 
{ 
    public static RoutedCommand AddCommand =  
                            new RoutedCommand(); 
} 
  1. Add the following namespace to resolve the RoutedCommand class:
using System.Windows.Input; 
  1. Once that has been done, navigate to the MainWindowViewModel.cs file, present under the ViewModels folder, and add a property named NewUserDetails of type UserModel. We will be using this property to bind with the Text property of the TextBox controls present in the UI. The property...