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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...

In XAML, the Source property of the Image control is the path of the image file that you want to display. When you access the same from code, it's a BitmapImage.

The Stretch property of an image describes how it should be stretched to fill the destination. For the first image, that we set as Stretch= "None", it preserves the original size of the image. When you set it as Fill, for the second image in the example, the content is resized to fill the destination dimensions without preserving its aspect ratio.

For the third and fourth image, setting it to Uniform and UniformToFill, respectively, set its content resized to fit in the destination dimensions while preserving its native aspect ratio. But for the fourth case, if the aspect ratio of the destination image differs from the source, the source content is clipped to fit in the destination dimensions.

The default value of the image Stretch property is Uniform. That means, when you add an image to the UI...