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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

XMLNS attribute declaration

When the custom control is present within the same project where you are going to use it, you need to add the XMLNS attribute in the following way:

xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:CH05.SearchControl" 

This is the same way we added it in the preceding example. The clr-namespace defines the namespace where the controls are available. A single namespace can have one or more controls.

When the custom control is present in a different project to the one where you are going to add it, you need to add the XMLNS attribute in the following way:

xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:CH05.SearchControl;assembly=CH05.SearchControlDemo" 

Here, the clr-namespace defines the namespace of the controls, whereas the assembly defines the fully qualified name of the assembly where the control is present.