Gain comprehensive insight into WPF mechanics and capabilities.

About This Book

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

Who This Book Is For

The book is intended for developers who are relatively new to WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), or those who have been working with WPF for some time, but want to get a deeper understanding of its foundation and concepts to gain practical knowledge. Basic knowledge of C# and Visual Studio is assumed.

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

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book takes a recipe-based approach to teaching you how to create fault-tolerant WPF applications.