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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation - Second Edition

By : Sheridan Yuen
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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation - Second Edition

By: Sheridan 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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Easing functions

When declaring animations with WPF, we are able to utilize a powerful capability that helps us to define more specialized animations. While we normally provide a start and end value for our animations and let WPF interpolate the intermediate values, there is a way that we can affect this interpolation process.

There are a number of mathematical functions that provide complex animation paths and are known as easing functions. For example, these can accurately replicate the movement of a spring, or the bounce of a ball.

We can simply declare the appropriate easing function within the EasingFunction property of the animation. Each easing function extends the EasingFunctionBase class and has its own specific properties. For example, the BounceEase element provides Bounces and Bounciness properties, while the ElasticEase class declare the Oscillations and Springiness properties.

All easing functions inherit the EasingMode property from the base class. This property is of the...