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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

The ServiceContract attribute

The [ServiceContract] attribute is used to define an interface that provides the service. A service should have at least one service contract, decorated by the [ServiceContract] attribute. The following properties can be used with the ServiceContractAttribute:

  • ConfigurationName: It specifies the name of the service element in the configuration file.
  • Name: This specifies the name of the contract in the WSDL element.
  • Namespace: This specifies the namespace of the contract in the WSDL element.
  • SessionMode: This specifies whether the contract requires a binding that supports sessions. It can have either of the following three values: Allowed (specifies that the contract supports the session), NotAllowed (specifies that the contract does not support the session), and Required (specifies that the contract does not require the session).
  • CallbackContract: This property specifies the return contract in a duplex conversation.
  • ProtectionLevel: This specifies the message...