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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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The coordinate positions are used to place elements in a Canvas panel. When you want to place an item in a Grid, set the Row and Column while placing it. For StackPanel, WrapPanel, and UniformGrid panels, you won't need to specify any other property as those will be stacked automatically.

The following example shows you how to dynamically add an element in a Grid, at a specific cell position, specified by the Row and Column index:

// set the Row and Column to place the element 
Grid.SetRow(element, rowIndex); 
Grid.SetColumn(element, columnIndex); 
 
// add the element to the Grid 
gridPanel.Children.Add(element); 

If you want to span the element to multiple rows and multiple columns, you can do so by calling the Grid.SetRowSpan and Grid.SetColumnSpan methods, as shown in the following code:

Grid.SetRowSpan(element, noOfRowsToSpan); 
Grid.SetColumnSpan(element, noOfColumnsToSpan);