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About the Tutorial

WPF stands for Windows Presentation Foundation. It is a powerful framework for building

Windows applications. This tutorial explains the features that you need to understand to

build WPF applications and how it brings a fundamental change in Windows applications.

Audience

This tutorial has been designed for all those readers who want to learn WPF and to apply

it instantaneously in different type of applications.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of XML, Web

Technologies and HTML.

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Table of Contents

About the Tutorial .................................................................................................................................. i

Audience ................................................................................................................................................ i

Prerequisites .......................................................................................................................................... i

Copyright & Disclaimer ........................................................................................................................... i

Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................. ii

1.

WPF ¨C OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 1

WPF Architecture .................................................................................................................................. 1

WPF ¨C Advantages ................................................................................................................................. 2

WPF ¨C Features...................................................................................................................................... 2

2.

WPF ¨C ENVIRONMENT SETUP ............................................................................................ 3

Installation ............................................................................................................................................ 3

3.

WPF ¨C HELLO WORLD ........................................................................................................ 7

4.

WPF ¨C XAML OVERVIEW .................................................................................................. 12

Basic Syntax ......................................................................................................................................... 12

Why XAML in WPF ............................................................................................................................... 13

5.

WPF ¨C ELEMENTS TREE .................................................................................................... 17

Logical Tree Structure .......................................................................................................................... 17

Visual Tree Structure ........................................................................................................................... 18

6.

WPF ¨C DEPENDENCY PROPERTIES .................................................................................... 20

Why We Need Dependency Properties ................................................................................................ 21

Custom Dependency Properties .......................................................................................................... 22

7.

WPF ¨C ROUTED EVENTS ................................................................................................... 25

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Direct Event ......................................................................................................................................... 25

Bubbling Event .................................................................................................................................... 25

Tunnel Event ....................................................................................................................................... 25

Custom Routed Events ........................................................................................................................ 29

8.

WPF ¨C CONTROLS ............................................................................................................ 34

9.

BUTTON ........................................................................................................................... 37

10.

CALENDAR ....................................................................................................................... 46

11.

CHECKBOX ....................................................................................................................... 52

12.

COMBOBOX ..................................................................................................................... 62

13.

CONTEXTMENU ............................................................................................................... 69

14.

DATAGRID ........................................................................................................................ 76

15.

DATEPICKER ..................................................................................................................... 85

16.

DIALOG BOX ..................................................................................................................... 90

17.

GRIDVIEW ........................................................................................................................ 93

18.

IMAGE.............................................................................................................................. 99

19.

LABEL ............................................................................................................................. 104

20.

LISTBOX.......................................................................................................................... 108

21.

MENU ............................................................................................................................ 113

22.

PASSWORDBOX.............................................................................................................. 119

23.

POPUP ........................................................................................................................... 123

24.

PROGRESSBAR ............................................................................................................... 126

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25.

RADIOBUTTON ............................................................................................................... 130

26.

SCROLLVIEWER .............................................................................................................. 137

27.

SLIDER ............................................................................................................................ 143

28.

TEXTBLOCK .................................................................................................................... 148

29.

TOGGLEBUTTON ............................................................................................................ 151

30.

TOOLTIP ......................................................................................................................... 155

31.

WINDOW ....................................................................................................................... 158

32.

THIRD-PARTY CONTROLS ............................................................................................... 162

33.

WPF ¨C LAYOUTS ............................................................................................................. 169

Stack Panel ........................................................................................................................................ 169

Wrap Panel ........................................................................................................................................ 172

Dock Panel......................................................................................................................................... 175

Canvas Panel ..................................................................................................................................... 179

Grid Panel .......................................................................................................................................... 183

34.

NESTING OF LAYOUT...................................................................................................... 187

35.

WPF ¨C INPUT.................................................................................................................. 189

Mouse ............................................................................................................................................... 189

Keyboard .......................................................................................................................................... 193

ContextMenu or RoutedCommands .................................................................................................. 195

Multi Touch ....................................................................................................................................... 198

36.

WPF ¨C COMMAND LINE ................................................................................................. 203

37.

WPF ¨C DATA BINDING .................................................................................................... 208

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