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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

Customizing the error template

In addition to the essential Errors and HasError properties, the Validation class also declares an ErrorTemplate Attached Property of type ControlTemplate. The default template assigned to this property is responsible for defining the red rectangle that surrounds UI fields that have validation errors associated with them.

However, this property enables us to change this template and so, we are able to define how validation errors are highlighted to the application users. As this property is an Attached Property, this effectively means that we could apply a different template to be displayed for each control in the UI. However, this cannot be recommended, because it could make the application look less consistent.

This template actually uses an Adorner element to render its graphics in the adorner layer, on top of the related control in error. Therefore, in order to specify where our error visual(s) should be rendered in relation to the related control, we...

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