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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 TextBlock control also supports inline formatting. Just like HTML tags, you can surround a text content with Bold, Italic, and Underline tags to format it, as shown in the following XAML code:

<TextBlock Margin="10, 5"> 
    7. TextBlock with <Bold>Bold</Bold>, <Italic>Italics</Italic>, <Underline>Underlined</Underline> text 
</TextBlock> 

You can also add a line break to a text content, like this:

<TextBlock Margin="10, 5"> 
    8. TextBlock with LineBreak<LineBreak/> in between the text 
</TextBlock> 

The following XAML code demonstrates how to add a hyperlink element to a TextBlock control that matches the style of your Windows theme:

<TextBlock Margin="10, 5"> 
    9. TextBlock with a <Hyperlink NavigateUri="http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com">Hyperlink</Hyperlink> text in it 
</TextBlock> 

The NavigateUri property is used to define...