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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Using WPF Standard Controls 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...

Follow these steps to host a WinForm control inside a WPF application window and map its properties:

  1. Begin with opening the WPF application window. From Solution Explorer, open the MainWindow.xaml file.

  1. Let's split the default Grid panel to have two columns. The second column will have a width based on its child elements, and the first column will accommodate the rest of the space. Add the following XAML mark-up inside Grid to split it by the specific requirement:
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/> 
    <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/> 
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
  1. Place a TextBlock control inside the first cell (0th column) of Grid, name it as txtBlock, and set Hello World! as its Text property:
<TextBlock x:Name="txtBlock" 
           Grid.Column="0" 
           Margin="8" 
           Text="Hello World!"/> 
  1. Now, after the TextBlock control, add...
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