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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 Canvas.Left property allows you to assign a value indicating the distance of the child element from the left edge of the Canvas. The Canvas.Top property allows you to assign a value indicating the distance of the child element from the top.

Similarly, the Canvas.Right and Canvas.Bottom properties allow you to assign the relative position from right and bottom, respectively.

As you can see in the preceding example, the first label is placed at the coordinate position (70, 40), whereas the second element is placed at the coordinate position (220, 90). If you resize the window, the position of the child elements will not change.

Points to note are that the vertical and horizontal alignments on child elements do not work. Also, if you set the Left property, the Right property does not work. Similarly, if you set the Top property, the Bottom property does not work.