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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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There's more to know about the star sized value. When there are two rows or two columns having height/width defined as *, they will occupy the available space by dividing it proportionally. Thus, in the preceding example, each of the two rows occupied 50% of the available space. Similarly, the three columns equally occupied a total of 100% of the available space.

You can also define them using n*. For example, if a Grid contains two rows, and among them, one of the rows has a height defined as 2* and the other as 8*, they will occupy 20% and 80% of the available space. Let's see this with a simple example.

Create a Grid inside a window and set its ShowGridLines property to True, so that the grid lines are visible on screen. By default, it is set to False. Now divide the entire Grid into five columns. Consider the following XAML code:

<Grid ShowGridLines="True"> 
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
        <ColumnDefinition Width=&quot...