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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
Using WPF Standard Controls

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using the TextBlock control to add plain text
  • Using Label to add other controls in text
  • Providing a user option to input text
  • Adding images in your application UI
  • Working with ready-to-use 2D shapes
  • Adding tooltips to show additional information
  • Adding a standard menu to the WPF application
  • Providing extra functionalities using the context menu
  • Adding user options with radio buttons and checkboxes
  • Working with the progress bar control
  • Using the Slider control to pick a numeric value
  • Using the calendar control in your application
  • Listing items in a ListBox control
  • Providing options to select from a ComboBox
  • Adding a status bar to your window
  • Adding a toolbar panel to perform quick tasks