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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...

Let's perform the following steps to create a few elements inside a window and provide the option to drag and drop from one panel to the other:

  1. First, open MainWindow.xaml and replace the existing Grid with a StackPanel. Set its Orientation property to Horizontal.
  2. Add two WrapPanel inside it and set their Width, Margin, ItemHeight, and ItemWidth properties.
  3. Give a name to both panels. Let's name the first wrap panel sourcePanel and the second wrap panel targetPanel. We will be using these name later from the code, while accessing them.
  4. Add a few labels to the first wrap panel. Set their Content, Background, and other text formatting properties. Here's the complete markup code:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> 
    <WrapPanel x:Name="sourcePanel" 
               ItemHeight="60" ItemWidth="100" 
               Width="200" Margin="4" 
               Background="LightGoldenrodYellow...