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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 to do it...

Adding a ListBox control in the UI is as easy as writing a <ListBox /> tag in any XAML page. But to hold the data in it, you will have to use its properties properly. Follow these steps to add a ListBox control with some static data:

  1. Open the MainWindow.xaml page of the WPF project.
  2. Under the default Grid panel, add the <ListBox></ListBox> tag to add the control.
  3. Add a few ListBoxItem inside the control, as shared here:
<ListBox x:Name="lstBox" 
         Width="120" Height="85" 
         Margin="10 10 20 5"> 
    <ListBoxItem Content="Item 1" /> 
    <ListBoxItem Content="Item 2" IsSelected="True" /> 
    <ListBoxItem Content="Item 3" /> 
    <ListBoxItem Content="Item 4" /> 
    <ListBoxItem Content="Item 5" /> 
</ListBox> 
  1. Add two buttons labelled + and - to perform the add and delete operations on the said...