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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

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will get started by creating two buttons inside the application window. Then we will create a style for the button and apply it to both of the controls. Follow these steps to try it on your own:

  1. From the Solution Explorer, open the MainWindow.xaml and replace the existing Grid panel by a StackPanel.
  2. Set the Orientation property of the StackPanel to Vertical, so that we can stack the child controls vertically.

  1. Now add a few buttons inside it and assign a content. Here's our markup of the StackPanel with two buttons:
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" 
     Margin="10"> 
    <Button Content="Click Here"/> 
    <Button Content="Click Here"/> 
</StackPanel> 
  1. Build and run the application. You will see the following UI:
  1. Close the application and return to the MainWindow.xaml page. Inside the Window tag, add <Window.Resources></Window.Resources> to add the button style...
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