How to do it...

Integration of the slider in WPF is very easy. Just place <Slider /> in your XAML page, and it will start working. But to customize it further, let's follow these steps:

1. Open the MainWindow.xaml page, and replace the default Grid with a StackPanel.
2. Now add a Slider and a TextBlock control inside the StackPanel, as shown in the following XAML snippet:

<StackPanel Margin="10"> 
    <Slider x:Name="slider" 
            Minimum="0" Maximum="100"                 
            Value="25" 
            SmallChange="1" 
            LargeChange="5" /> 
    <TextBlock Margin="4"> 
        <Run Text="Current slider value: " /> 
        <Run Text="{Binding Value, ElementName=slider}" /> 
    </TextBlock> 
</StackPanel>

3. Run the application. You will see a Slider control in the UI, along with a text that shows the current value, which...