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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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You can extend the functionality of the converter by using the converter parameter. Let's modify the Convert method to utilize the parameter named parameter and reverse the visibility based on its value.

To do so, open the BoolToVisibilityConverter.cs and modify the class implementation as shared in the following code snippet:

public class BoolToVisibilityConverter : IValueConverter 
{ 
   public object Convert(object value,  
                         Type targetType,  
                         object parameter,  
                         CultureInfo culture) 
   { 
         var val = (bool) value; 
         if (parameter is string param &&  
             param.ToString().Equals("inverse")) { val = !val; } 
 
         return val ? Visibility.Visible: Visibility.Collapsed; 
   } 
 
   public object ConvertBack(object value,  
                             Type targetType,  
                             object parameter,  
                    ...