Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook: 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows

By Kunal Chowdhury

Gain comprehensive insight into Windows Presentation Foundation mechanics and capabilities

Key Features

Gain a strong foundation in WPF features and patterns Leverage the MVVM pattern to build decoupled, maintainable apps Increase efficiency through Performance tuning and UI automation

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Understand the fundamentals of WPF Explore the major controls and manage element layout. Implement data binding Create custom elements that lead to a particular implementation path. Customize controls, styles, and templates in XAML Leverage the MVVM pattern to maintain a clean and reusable structure in your code Master practical animations Integrate WCF services in a WPF application Implement WPFs support for debugging and asynchronous operations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788399803
• ISBN13: 9781788399807
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.3"