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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643416
Length 626 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sheridan Yuen Sheridan Yuen
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Preface 1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF 2. Debugging WPF Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks 4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding 5. Using the Right Controls for the Job 6. Adapting the Built-In Controls 7. Mastering Practical Animations 8. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces 9. Implementing Responsive Data Validation 10. Completing that Great User Experience 11. Improving Application Performance 12. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application 13. What Next? 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
Completing that Great User Experience

As we have seen, it is easy to add form fields to a View and produce visually appealing and functionally adequate applications. However, it can take a lot more work to provide the end user with an interface that truly ticks all of the boxes. For example, how many times have you clicked on a button in an application and had the whole application freeze while it does some work?

In this chapter, we'll look into solving this problem by using asynchronous programming, along with a number of other ways of improving the user experience for the end user. For example, we'll investigate enabling the users to customize their versions of the application using their own user preference settings.

We'll discuss keeping the users informed, by providing user feedback, and update our application framework by adding a feedback system. We&apos...

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