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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation - Second Edition

By : Yuen
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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

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By: Yuen

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a rich set of libraries and APIs for developers to create engaging user experiences. This book features a wide range of examples, from simple to complex, to demonstrate how to develop enterprise-grade applications with WPF. This updated second edition of Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation starts by introducing the benefits of using the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) software architectural pattern with WPF, then moves on, to explain how best to debug our WPF applications. It explores application architecture, and we learn how to build the foundation layer of our applications. It then demonstrates data binding in detail, and examines the various built-in WPF controls and a variety of ways in which we can customize them to suit our requirements. We then investigate how to create custom controls, for when the built-in functionality in WPF cannot be adapted for our needs. The latter half of the book deals with polishing our applications, using practical animations, stunning visuals and responsive data validation. It then moves on, to look at improving application performance, and ends with tutorials on several methods of deploying our applications.
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Structuring the application code base

Now that we have a better understanding of the MVVM pattern, let's look at how we might implement it in a WPF application. What should the folder structure of our application be like? Clearly, we'll need somewhere to put our Models, Views, and View Models; however, how we arrange them will somewhat depend on the overall size of our application.

As we have heard, very small projects do not really suit MVVM because implementing it can involve a lot of preparation and often, the benefits do not apply. For small WPF applications, we would typically have just one project in our WPF application. In these cases, our classes would be separated into different folders within the single project.

With larger scale applications, we arrange our classes in the same basic structure, but as there are more classes and more chance that we want to reuse some of this code, it makes sense to use separate projects instead of folders. Either way, our classes should...

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