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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...

Perform the following steps to create your first custom control, which will contain a text input box and a button to build a search control. At the end, we will add it to the application window:

  1. Once the project has been created, right-click on the project, from Solution Explorer, and follow Add | New Item... from the context menu entries. A new dialog window will pop up on the screen.

  1. Inside the Add New Item dialog window, expand the Installed | Visual C# | WPF tree item, from the left navigation panel, and select Custom Control (WPF) from the right screen:
  1. Give the custom control a name (let's say, SearchControl.cs) and click Add to create it. This will create the class file named SearchControl.cs inside the project, and a folder (named Themes) containing a Generic.xaml file.
  2. Open the Generic.xaml file, which will contain a Style for the custom control that we created. This gets generated automatically by the Visual Studio IDE, while creating the custom...
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