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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...

When you bind the logical resource as a StaticResource, it causes the binding to occur at construction time. On the other hand, the DynamicResource markup extension binds to a resource dynamically, only when it is needed.

In the preceding example, when we registered the resource to the Background property of the Border control as a StaticResource, we were not able to see the change reflected in the UI, even though we replaced the resource with a new object on selection of the radio button. But when we changed the binding to DynamicResource, the change was automatically reflected. This is because the dynamic resource binding refreshes itself if the object changes. But this is not same with the static resource binding, as it always keeps referencing the old object.