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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 the following steps, we will build a simple application that will create and execute a multi trigger based on some conditions and change the Foreground and Background properties of the TextBox controls:

  1. Open the MainWindow.xaml file.
  2. Replace the default Grid panel with a vertical StackPanel.
  3. Add two TextBox controls inside the panel and set their Text property to represent some text. Here's the XAML that we will be using in this example:
<StackPanel> 
    <TextBox Text="Focus your cursor here" 
             FontSize="20" 
             HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
             VerticalAlignment="Center" 
             Height="30" 
             Margin="4"/> 
 
    <TextBox Text="Focus your cursor here" 
             FontSize="20" 
             HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
             VerticalAlignment="Center" 
             Height="30&quot...