Book Image

Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

Book Image

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)
2
Using WPF Standard Controls

How it works...

The UI of the application has two TextBlock controls to represent the data and one TextBox to get input from the user. In the first TextBlock control, we have multiple <Run/> commands to bind the data value from the Person class, along with other static texts and a Hyperlink to create a link. The data of the UI class is bound to the DataContext, which is PersonDetails in our case. The properties binded to the UI come from the Person class, which is the data type of the PersonDetails dependency property.

The TextBox control is bound to the Experience property, which is again bound to the third Run command of the first TextBlock. Hence, it is showing 10 in both places. Now change the value of the TextBox control to 15 and press the TAB key to change the focus. This will trigger the TextChanged event of the TextBox and modify the underlying property named Experience. Due to its nature, the notification will be automatically sent to the UI and the TextBlock control will...