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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

Creating a WCF service

A WCF service is a secure service to process business transactions, which supplies current data to others, exposing a workflow implemented using Windows Workflow Foundation as a WCF service. It provides a single programming model to leverage the features to create a unified solution to all distributed technologies. That means you can write the service once and expose different endpoints to exchange messages using any format (default is SOAP) over any transport protocol, that is, HTTP, TCP, MSMQ, Named Pipes, and so on.

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is one of the preferred models, where communication between the server and the client happens by using XML-based data.

In this recipe, we will learn about data contract, data member, service contract, operation contract, you need to consider these when creating and connecting to WCF services. When a service reference is taken into an application project, the developer only needs to configure the service with a...