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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?

Amalgamating validation and visuals


Let's now utilize some of the techniques that we discussed in the previous chapter to design a visually appealing user interface that highlights validation errors in a novel way, using our glowing example. We'll first need to add some more resources to use in this example. Let's start by adding two further glow brush resources to the GreenGlow brush resource from the previous chapter:

<RadialGradientBrush x:Key="BlueGlow" Center="0.5,0.848"  
  GradientOrigin="0.5,0.818" RadiusX="-1.424" RadiusY="-0.622"  
  RelativeTransform="{StaticResource GlowTransformGroup}"> 
  <GradientStop Color="#CF01C7FF" Offset="0.168" /> 
  <GradientStop Color="#4B01C7FF" Offset="0.478" /> 
  <GradientStop Color="#1101C7FF" Offset="1" /> 
</RadialGradientBrush> 
<RadialGradientBrush x:Key="RedGlow" Center="0.5,0.848"  
  GradientOrigin="0.5,0.818" RadiusX="-1.424" RadiusY="-0.622"  
  RelativeTransform...
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