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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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Data binding can be unidirectional (source > target or target > source) or bidirectional (source < > target), known as mode, and is defined in four categories:

  • OneTime: This type of data binding mode causes the source property to initialize the target property. After the binding gets generated, no notifications will be triggered. You should use this type of data binding where the source data does not change.
  • OneWay: This type of binding causes the source property to automatically update the target property. The reverse is not possible here. For example, if you want to display a label/text in the UI based on some condition in the code behind or business logic, you need to use OneWay data binding as you don't need to update back the property from the UI.
  • TwoWay: This type of binding is a bidirectional data binding, where both the source property and the target property can send update notifications. This is applicable for editable forms where the user...