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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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Make sure you display the owner window first, before setting it as the owner of some other window, otherwise the system will throw an InvalidOperationException:

Some points to note about window ownership:

  • The window that has an ownership relationship with another window always appears on top of that owner
  • You can drag the window outside the owner window
  • When you minimize or close the owner, the other window, which is related to it, will follow the owner and minimize or close respectively
  • By default, the window in a relationship gets displayed in the taskbar, but when you minimize the owner, it gets removed from the taskbar
  • When you want to break the relationship, just set the Owner property to null