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

Gain comprehensive insight into WPF 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

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.

Table of Contents
WPF Fundamentals
Using WPF Standard Controls
Layouts and Panels
Working with Data Bindings
Using Custom Controls and User Controls
Using Styles, Templates and Triggers
Using Resources and MVVM Patterns
Working with Animations
Using WCF Services
Debugging and Threading
Interoperability with Win32 and WinForm