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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...

It is not mandatory to provide a string type key name to a resource binding. You can also provide a static object to the binding. In this example, we used the static value SystemColors.DesktopBrushKey in combination with the {x:Static} markup extension:

Fill="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.DesktopBrushKey}}" 

As we have learned about the dynamic resource binding in the previous recipes, this example also follows the same method, and thus you can see the selected color is automatically applied to the rectangle.

There are many static keys under the SystemColors class, which you can reference in your design. This is often useful when you want your application to be in sync with the operating system's theme.