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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

Providing services

The job of the base classes and interfaces in our application framework are to encapsulate functionality that is commonly used by our View Models and data Models. When the required functionality is more complex, or when it involves particular resources, or external connections, we implement it in separate service, or manager classes. For the remainder of this book, we will refer to these as manager classes. In larger applications, these are typically provided in a separate project.

Encapsulating them in a separate project enables us to reuse the functionality from these classes in our other applications. Which classes we use in this project will depend on the requirements of the application that we're building, but it will often include classes that provide the ability to send emails, to access the end user's hard drive, to export data in various formats, or to manage global application state for example.

We will investigate a number of these classes...

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