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By Rod Stephens

Build powerful consumer interfaces with home windows Presentation Foundation

Windows Presentation beginning (WPF) is incorporated with the home windows working approach and offers a programming version for development purposes that supply a transparent separation among the UI and enterprise good judgment. Written by means of a number one specialist on Microsoft photos programming, this richly illustrated e-book offers an advent to WPF improvement and explains basic WPF concepts.

Packed with useful examples, this reference progresses via quite a number subject matters that gently bring up of their complexity. You’ll fast begin development functions whenever you find out how to use either Expression mixture and visible Studio to construct UIs. additionally, the ebook addresses the wishes of programmer who write the code at the back of the UI and indicates you ways operations should be played utilizing either XAML and C#.

Topics Covered:

Overview of WPF
WPF in visible Studio
Expression Blend
universal Properties
content material Controls
format Controls
consumer interplay Controls
Two-Dimensional Drawing Controls
Properties
Pens and Brushes
occasions and Code-Behind
Resources
types and estate Triggers
occasion Triggers and Animation
Templates
issues and Skins
Printing
info Binding
Commanding
ameliorations and Effects
Documents
Navigation-Based Applications
three-d Drawing
Silverlight

Even for those who simply have a minimum volume of expertise, via the tip of the publication, it is possible for you to to construct dynamic and responsive consumer interfaces with WPF.

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The mere fact that WPF is relatively new means that it is less stable than the more established Windows Forms. Changes, hopefully for the better, are inevitable. Finally, the Expression Blend and Visual Studio XAML Editors leave much to be desired. Neither of them can handle all of the flexibility provided by WPF, and they sometimes generate cumbersome XAML code that you may need to fix by hand. IntelliSense support is also weak for XAML editing, particularly for providing help while entering values for attributes.

Find the new brush in the list shown in Figure 3-14 and select it. FIgurE 3-14 Figure 3-15 shows the result. Notice that the image is stretched to fill the entire rectangle. Since the original image was circular, the result is stretched out of shape. This is the default appearance that Expression Blend assumes you want to use. It works well if you want a large area to display a picture as a background and either the image fits the area or you don’t mind some stretching. FIgurE 3-15 It doesn’t work as well if you want to tile an area with repeated copies of an image.

Then you can add more advanced features such as styles, templates, and animations when you decide you need them. As long as you don’t get carried away with animation, sound effects, and other fun but distracting features, you can use WPF to build engaging, responsive interfaces that will both keep users interested and let them do their jobs. Now that you understand what WPF is and what its strengths and weaknesses are, you’re ready to start building WPF applications. The next two chapters describe the two main tools for building these applications: Visual Studio and Expression Blend.

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