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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399807
Length 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kunal Chowdhury Kunal Chowdhury
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. WPF Fundamentals 2. Using WPF Standard Controls FREE CHAPTER 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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The PropertyGrid control, part of the .NET Framework, allows you to browse, view, and edit the properties of one or more objects. It uses reflection to retrieve and display properties of any object or type.

Reflection is a technology that allows you to retrieve the type information at runtime.

If you are using WinForm, you will be able to use the PropertyGrid control easily from the control toolbar. But, unfortunately, this control is not available in WPF. To use this inside a WPF application, you will need to use the interoperability of WPF and WinForm. For this to work, we need to use the WindowsFormsHost class.

The WindowsFormsHost class allows you to host a Windows Forms control on a WPF page. It is part of the System.Windows.Forms.Integration namespace and it is available inside the WindowsFormsIntegration.dll assembly. That's the reason why we had to reference the System.Windows.Forms and WindowsFormsIntegration assemblies inside the project.

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