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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)
2
Using WPF Standard Controls

How to do it...

Please perform the following steps:

  1. Open the MainWindow.xaml file from Solution Explorer.
  2. Set a smaller size of the Window. Let's set its height to 120 and width to 400.
  3. Replace the existing Grid panel with a ViewBox.
  4. Add text inside it, using the TextBlock control as follows:
<Viewbox> 
    <TextBlock Text="This is a text, inside a ViewBox" 
               Margin="10"/> 
</Viewbox>
  1. Run the application. You will see the following output:
  1. Now resize the window and you will see that the text is automatically scaled based on the size of the window: