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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation Master the art of building modern desktop applications on Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883002
Length 568 pages
Edition 1st 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. Mastering Practical Animations 7. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces 8. Implementing Responsive Data Validation 9. Completing That Great User Experience 10. Improving Application Performance 11. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application 12. What Next?

Chapter 12. What Next?

In this book, we discovered the MVVM architectural pattern and explored the process of developing a WPF application, while taking advantage of this pattern's Separation of Concerns and adhering to its principals. We investigated a number of different ways of communicating between the various application layers and structuring our code base.

Importantly, we considered a variety of ways of debugging our WPF applications and tracking down our coding problems. In particular, we revealed some tips and tricks to help us to identify the causes of our data binding errors. In addition, we also learnt how viewing trace information can help us to detect problems, even after our applications have been deployed.

We moved on to investigate the benefit of utilizing an application framework and began designing and developing our own. We structured it in a way that did not tie our framework to any particular feature or technology and experimented with a variety of ways...

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