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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

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NavigationService offers a variety of properties, methods, and events to perform navigation mechanisms on your page content. CanGoBack() and CanGoForward() return a Boolean value indicating whether there is at least one entry in the back and forward navigation history, respectively. The method GoBack() navigates you to the most recent entry from back navigation history, whereas the GoForward() method navigates you to the forward navigation history, if there's one available.

To refresh the current content, you can call the Refresh() method. The StopLoading() method stops the current execution from downloading/loading the content part of the current navigation context. You can also programmatically add or remove an entry from the navigation history. The AddBackEntry method takes a parameter for the CustomContentState object to add the entry into the back-navigation history. The RemoveBackEntry() method removes the most recent entry from the back-navigation history.

Events such as Navigating, Navigated, NavigationFailed, NavigationStopped, NavigationProgress, and LoadCompleted are there to notify you of the various statuses of the current navigation process. Use them wisely, based on your requirements.