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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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You can also set an image in XAML by creating a BitmapImage instance and assigning it to its Source property. The BitmapImage instance exposes the UriSource property to set the image path. Here's an example of how to set the image source in XAML, using the BitmapImage element:

<Image> 
    <Image.Source> 
        <BitmapImage UriSource="demoImage.jpg" /> 
    </Image.Source> 
</Image> 

You can also rotate an image by setting the Rotation property of BitmapImage. It contains four values Rotate0, Rotate90, Rotate180, and Rotate270. Here's an example to demonstrate how to rotate an image by 180 degrees:

<Image> 
    <Image.Source> 
        <BitmapImage UriSource="demoImage.jpg" 
                     Rotation="Rotate180"/> 
    </Image.Source> 
</Image> 

Additionally, you can also use the StretchDirection property of an Image control. The value indicates how the image is...