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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

ElasticEase

As the name says, it represents an easing function that creates an animation that resembles a spring oscillating back and forth until it comes to rest. The Oscillations property can be used to get/set the number of times the target slides back and forth over the animation destination. The Springiness property can be used to define the stiffness of the spring. The smaller the value of Springiness, means a stiffer spring in action.

To demonstrate, let's add the following RadioButton inside the StackPanel to create an animation with ElasticEase, having Oscillations="3" and Springiness="1":

<RadioButton GroupName="AnimationSelector" 
             Content="ElasticEase - EaseInOut" 
             Margin="4"> 
    <RadioButton.Triggers> 
        <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="RadioButton.Checked"> 
            <BeginStoryboard> 
                <Storyboard AutoReverse="True"> 
   ...