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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

Adding spellcheck support

The attached SpellCheck.IsEnabled property allows you to add spellcheck support to the TextBox control. Set it to True to enable it. Let's add a multiline textbox in the UI with this feature enabled:

<TextBox TextWrapping="Wrap" AcceptsReturn="True" 
         Height="60" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" 
         SpellCheck.IsEnabled="True" 
         Margin="10 5" /> 

Now run the application to have a window with a multiline text-input field in the UI. Enter some text with some spelling mistakes. You will see that the wrongly spelled words get highlighted with red underline. Right-click on it to see a context menu, which suggests words from the dictionary.

As shown in the following screenshot, select the one that is best suited in this context: