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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 OperationContract attribute

The [OperationContract] attribute is used to define the methods of the service contract. This is placed on the methods that you want to include as part of the service contract. The following properties can be used to control the structure of the operation:

  • Action: This property specifies the action that uniquely identifies the operation.
  • ReplyAction: This specifies the action of the reply message of the operation.
  • AsyncPattern: This indicates that the operation can be called asynchronously.
  • ProtectionLevel: This specifies the message-level security that an operation requires during runtime. It can be one of three types—None (only simple authentication), Sign (sign data to help ensure data integrity), and EncryptAndSign (encrypt and sign data to ensure integrity and confidentiality of transmitted data).
  • HasProtectionLevel: This indicates whether the ProtectionLevel property has been explicitly set.
  • IsOneWay: This property indicates that the operation...