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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...

Perform the following steps steps to proceed:

  1. Let's create two folders, called Behaviors and Converters, inside the project.
  2. Now create one or more behaviors and converters in the respective folders. These will have CH05.NamespaceCustomizationDemo.Behaviors and CH05.NamespaceCustomizationDemo.Converters as the namespace for all the behaviors and converters in the respective modules.
  3. To create the URL schema for the namespace representation, open the AssemblyInfo.cs file present in the Properties folder of each project.
  4. Now, to create the schema to represent the namespace of the behaviors (CH05.NamespaceCustomizationDemo.Behaviors), let's add the following inside the file:
[assembly: XmlnsPrefix("http://schemas.kunal-chowdhury.com/xaml/behaviors", "behaviors")] 
 
[assembly: XmlnsDefinition("http://schemas.kunal-chowdhury.com/xaml/behaviors", "CH05.NamespaceCustomizationDemo.Behaviors")] 
  1. Similarly, to define the URL...