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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 to do it...

Once the project is created, follow these steps to design the UI and do a multi-binding between multiple elements:

  1. From the Solution Explorer, open the MainWindow.xaml page.
  2. Inside the default Grid panel, create a few rows and columns, so that we can position elements at specific cells. Let's divide the Grid into five rows and three columns:
<Grid.RowDefinitions> 
    <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> 
    <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> 
    <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> 
    <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> 
    <RowDefinition Height="*"/> 
</Grid.RowDefinitions> 
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
    <ColumnDefinition/> 
    <ColumnDefinition Width="90"/> 
    <ColumnDefinition/> 
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
  1. Inside the Grid panel, insert the following XAML code snippet to add few labels and input boxes inside the window:
<TextBlock Text=&quot...