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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...

The AllowDrop="True" property prepares the panel as drop enabled. When you start a drag by clicking on the element, the DragDrop.DoDragDrop method written in the OnDrag event initiates the drag and drop operation. It takes the first parameter as a reference to the dependency object, that is, the source of the data being dragged. The second parameter is the data object that contains the data being dragged. And the last parameter is a value that specifies the final effect (DragDropEffects) of the operation.

In the preceding example, when the element is dropped to the drop target, the dragged data retrieved from the DragEventArgs parameter value is first removed from the source and then added to the drop target.