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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 to do it...

Follow these steps to create various shapes in your application:

  1. Open your MainWindow.xaml file, and replace the existing Grid panel with UniformGrid. Set its maximum columns count to 3, by setting its Column property.
  2. Let's add our first shape, a Rectangle. Add the following XAML code inside the UniformGrid:
<Rectangle Width="200" Height="100" 
           Stroke="DarkBlue" StrokeThickness="5" 
           Fill="SkyBlue" Margin="10 5" /> 
  1. Now let's add an Ellipse, which you can change to a circle by setting the same value to its Height and Width properties. Add the following code to create the ellipse:
<Ellipse Width="200" Height="100" 
         Stroke="DarkBlue" StrokeThickness="5" 
         Fill="SkyBlue" Margin="10 5" /> 
  1. To add a Line in the panel, add the following XAML:
<Line X1="10" Y1="80" X2=...