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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...

Let's follow these steps to add two images to the application window and flip the second image to give a reflection effect. This will be done by grouping multiple transforms to that image:

  1. First, we need to add an image to the project. To do this, create a folder named Images in the project root directory.
  2. Right-click on the Images folder and add an existing image to it. Name it image1.png, which will be accessible from XAML as Images/image1.png.
  3. From the Solution Explorer, navigate to the MainWindow.xaml file.
  4. Replace the existing Grid panel with a horizontal StackPanel.
  5. Insert two Image controls inside it and set their names as originalImage and flippedImage.
  6. Now set the image source of both the controls to Images/image1.png and then set their size. This is how the XAML will look:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" 
            Margin="10"> 
    <Image x:Name="originalImage" 
           Source="Images/image1.png&quot...