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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 RenderTransform attribute helps you to set runtime transformation to any UI Element. In this example, we used ScaleTransform to scale the image on the application window.

When you run the application, the first one is the default image with an opacity set to 20%, whereas the second one is scaled to 80% with an opacity of 100%. The ScaleX and ScaleY properties are used to scale an element, which takes a decimal value to represent the ratio. For example, 0.8 denotes 80%, whereas 1.2 denotes 120% of the scaling:

For the third and fourth images, both are scaled to 50%. But, as you see on the UI, the positions of the said images are different. The properties CenterX and CenterY are used to set the scaling center position. The third image has the scaling center set at (0,0), whereas the fourth one has its center position set at (100,100):

<ScaleTransform ScaleX="0.5" 
                ScaleY="0.5" 
                CenterX="100" 
        ...