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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

Hosting WPF controls in WinForm applications

As WPF provides a rich user interface to applications, you may want to apply the same to your existing applications. But when you have a large Windows Form application project, where you already made a large investment, you won't like to reinvest on the same to scrap it and rewrite the entire project in WPF.

In such cases, WPF interoperation with WinForms is ideal. Using this, you can embed a WPF control inside a form and leverage the additional features of WPF, wherever possible.

In the previous recipe, we learned how to host WinForm controls into a WPF application. But in this recipe, we will learn the reverse, that is, how to host a WPF composite control in a Windows Forms application. We will learn this by following some simple walkthrough steps. You can extend this procedure later to host more complex applications and controls.

This walkthrough will basically be divided into two logical parts. In the first part, we will build a WPF...