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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...

When you use a converter of type IMultiValueConverter in a MultiBinding, it passes the values defined by the Binding tag to the Convert method as an object array. In our preceding example, we passed three string values (firstName, middleName, and lastName) to the Convert method. The method then concatenated the strings to form a single string, which was the output string of the Fullname field as the binding was made with its Text property.

Similarly, when we changed the value of the Fullname field, the ConvertBack method triggered by the binding converter and returned the splitted strings. As per the binding order, those automatically got assigned to the respective fields—Firstname, Middle, and Lastname.