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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...

Grid works in cells, by creating the rows and columns. <Grid.RowDefinitions> and <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> define the structure of the Grid. It contains a collection of rows and columns, respectively. Here we have created two rows and three columns (2x3 matrix) using RowDefinition and ColumnDefinition.

When we placed the rectangles inside the Grid, we positioned them in cells by specifying the row and column number by using the attached properties, Grid.Row and Grid.Column. As the index position starts at 0 (zero), the first rectangle placed in the first cell has row index = 0 and column index = 0. Similarly, the sixth/last rectangle has the position Row=1 and Column=2.

You can set the Height of a RowDefinition and the Width of a ColumnDefinition by specifying an absolute value, a percentage value (star sizing), or an automatic sizing. In the preceding example, we used star sizing to define the row and column dimensions.

An absolute value takes an integer to...