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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 WCF client proxy can be generated manually by using the SVCUtil.exe (Service Model Metadata Utility Tool). It is a command-line tool for generating the code from the service metadata. The following command can be used to generate the proxy code: svcutil.exe <Service URL>.

If you want to create the proxy client for the service that we created earlier, you can enter the following command in a console window:

svcutil.exe http://localhost:59795/Services/
EmployeeService.svc?wsdl

Alternatively, you can also generate the client proxy from Visual Studio. As demonstrated previously, the Add Service Reference feature generates the proxy code automatically. Once you click the Go button after inserting the service address, the dialog displays a list of services available at the address specified. It starts generating the code when you click the OK button.

In our case, the Service Model Metadata Utility Tool and the Add Service Reference dialog of Visual Studio (you can...