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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...

The RoutedCommand class falls under the System.Windows.Input namespace, and provides two methods named CanExecute and Execute. The CanExecute method indicates whether the command is available, whereas the Execute method executes the command.

The RoutedCommand objects are basically empty shells and can't contain the implementation. For this to work, they look for a CommandBinding object from a target element that indicates the handler of the command. It registers the CanExecute and Execute methods to fire when the command associates with any control.

For example, in this demonstration, the AddCommand associated with the Button control has a CommandBinding, which denotes its CanExecute and Execute handler as CanExecute_AddCommand and Execute_AddCommand. When the button fires the Click event, it routes to the command binding to execute the associate command interface.