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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...

TemplateBinding is a type of binding used mainly while working with templates. This allows you to replace the visual tree of controls for a completely fresh look and feel, based on the theme or style that you want to use. It also helps you to reference the parent control, read its properties, and apply its values.

When you apply a template binding to a control, present in the ControlTemplate of the parent control, it first checks whether the property is present to the parent control. If it is not present, it throws an XAML syntax error.

If it finds the property, it checks whether the value is supplied from the place where the custom control has been used. If it finds no reference, it applies the default value to the property.