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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

The DisplayMode property

The DisplayMode property allows you to select the format of the calendar, which can be a month, a year, or a decade. When you launch a basic calendar, by default, it shows the month view:

But a user can easily navigate from month to year to decade by clicking the header text of the Calendar control.

To change the display mode from code, you can set the DisplayMode property to Month, Year, or Decade:

<Calendar DisplayMode="Month" /> <!-- default mode --> 
<Calendar DisplayMode="Year" /> 
<Calendar DisplayMode="Decade" /> 

The user can initiate the downward transitions by clicking any of the calendar cells, and they can easily navigate from decade to year to month and select the correct date.