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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

You're reading from Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788399807

Length 524 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Foundation

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Kunal Chowdhury

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. WPF Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Using WPF Standard Controls

3. Layouts and Panels

4. Working with Data Bindings

5. Using Custom Controls and User Controls

6. Using Styles, Templates, and Triggers

7. Using Resources and MVVM Patterns

8. Working with Animations

9. Using WCF Services

10. Debugging and Threading

11. Interoperability with Win32 and WinForm

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Getting ready

To install the required components for building WPF applications, run the Visual Studio 2017 installer. If you don't have the installer, you can go to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads and download the correct edition. Let's download the Visual Studio Community 2017 edition as it is a fully featured IDE and available free for students, open source, and individual developers.

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Authors (1)

Kunal Chowdhury

Kunal Chowdhury

Kunal Chowdhury is an author, a passionate blogger, and a software engineer by profession. He was a Microsoft MVP from 2010 to 2018. Over the years, he has acquired profound knowledge of various Microsoft products and services, and has helped developers and consumers throughout the world. As a tech buff, Kunal has in-depth knowledge of C#, XAML, .NET, WPF, Visual Studio, Windows 10, and Azure. He has written many articles on his technical blog for developers and consumers. You can contact him on Twitter (kunal2383) and become one of his fans. He has also authored the books Mastering Visual Studio 2017 and Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook, both available from Packt Publishing.

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