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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...

The first set of radio button controls are placed in a group with the same name rdoGroup1. When a group name is set to a set of radio buttons, the selection follows that. The first radio button in that group is by default selected, by setting its IsChecked property to True. If you select any other radio button within that group, the previous selection resets to unchecked status.

The same is true for the second group too, but selection of one group does not affect the other group. So, when you check one radio button from the first group, it will not uncheck the radio buttons from the other group.

This is not the same for CheckBox controls. Checkbox controls allow you to have many checked items. When you select a checkbox, it can just toggle from one state to another.

Both the radio button and checkbox control expose the IsChecked property to return a Boolean value to tell whether the control is checked or unchecked.