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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Debugging WPF Applications 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?

Going the extra mile

Most privately developed applications are primarily functional, with little time and effort spent on design concerns and even less on usability. How many times have we seen applications that throw out a stack trace to the end user when an error occurs, or validation messages that highlight errors with the camel case code names for fields, rather than the labels used in the UI?

In a good application, the end user should never be presented with any code-based terminology. If we were writing an English based application, we wouldn't output error messages in Spanish, so why output them in C#? This can confuse the user and even alarm them in some cases.

How many times have you used an application that has an awkward process flow to perform each task, that involves far more mouse clicks than is necessary? This section is dedicated to avoiding these kinds of situations and suggests a number of ways of improving the usability of our applications.

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