Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Sheridan Yuen

Paid access

|Jun 2024

E-Book €34.99Institutions €129.95

Description

Gain the expertise you need to build custom application frameworks and responsive and visually appealing user interfaces with WPF, C#, and .NET

Key Features

Discover a smarter way of working with WPF using the MVVM software architectural pattern
Create your own lightweight application framework to build your future applications upon
Understand data binding and learn how to use it in an application

Book Description

Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a rich set of libraries and APIs for developers to create engaging user experiences. This book features a wide range of examples, from simple to complex, to demonstrate how to develop enterprise-grade applications with WPF.
This updated second edition of Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation starts by introducing the benefits of using the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) software architectural pattern with WPF, then moves on, to explain how best to debug our WPF applications. It explores application architecture, and we learn how to build the foundation layer of our applications.
It then demonstrates data binding in detail, and examines the various built-in WPF controls and a variety of ways in which we can customize them to suit our requirements. We then investigate how to create custom controls, for when the built-in functionality in WPF cannot be adapted for our needs.
The latter half of the book deals with polishing our applications, using practical animations, stunning visuals and responsive data validation. It then moves on, to look at improving application performance, and ends with tutorials on several methods of deploying our applications.

What you will learn

Discover MVVM and how it helps development with WPF
Implement your own custom application framework
Data bind the correct way
First understand, then adapt the built-in controls
Master practical animations
Implement responsive data validation
Create visually appealing user interfaces
Improve application performance

Who this book is for

This Windows book is for developers with basic to intermediate-level knowledge of Windows Presentation Foundation and for those interested in simply enhancing their WPF skills. If you're looking to learn more about application architecture and designing user interfaces in a visually appealing manner, you'll find this book useful.