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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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The ComboBox control is not editable by default. But you can control this behavior to provide the user with the option to manually enter the desired value, directly in the ComboBox control. The IsEditable property is used to add this functionality. Set it to True, to change it to an editable ComboBox. Consider the following code:

<ComboBox Width="150" Height="26" 
    Margin="10" IsEditable="True"> 
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Item 1" /> 
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Item 2" IsSelected="True" /> 
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Item 3" /> 
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Item 4" /> 
    <ComboBoxItem Content="Item 5" /> 
</ComboBox> 

If you run the preceding code, you can see the following UI, where the control now allows you to enter text to it: