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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...

Every panel exposes a property named Children to hold a collection of UIElement as UIElementCollection. To dynamically add an element to UIElementCollection, use its Add method; and to remove an element, pass the element to its Remove method.

In the preceding example, when the user left-clicks on the Canvas, the e.GetPosition method provides the coordinate position (X, Y) of the click, relative to the panel where it was clicked. The Canvas.SetLeft and Canvas.SetTop methods are used to position the created element relative to the panel and then are added to it.

Similarly, to delete the element from the panel, the e.Source property is used to retrieve the element where the user right-clicked. If it is not null, remove it from the Canvas by calling the Remove method.