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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...

In this recipe, we will get started by creating two buttons inside the application window. Then we will create a style for the button and apply it to both of the controls. Follow these steps to try it on your own:

  1. From the Solution Explorer, open the MainWindow.xaml and replace the existing Grid panel by a StackPanel.
  2. Set the Orientation property of the StackPanel to Vertical, so that we can stack the child controls vertically.

  1. Now add a few buttons inside it and assign a content. Here's our markup of the StackPanel with two buttons:
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" 
     Margin="10"> 
    <Button Content="Click Here"/> 
    <Button Content="Click Here"/> 
</StackPanel> 
  1. Build and run the application. You will see the following UI:
  1. Close the application and return to the MainWindow.xaml page. Inside the Window tag, add <Window.Resources></Window.Resources> to add the button style...