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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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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 it works...

When you create a Style object, you set a bunch of Setter objects to it to define various properties to change the look and feel of the control. This may include the height, width, positions, alignments, colors, fonts, control template, triggers, and more.

The FrameworkElement class exposes a Style property that can be filled by a Style object. Styles are always built as resources, as you see them inside the <Window.Resources> tag in our example. It contains an x:Key property, which defines the name/key of the style. By using this Key, you can perform a binding from any other resources/controls within the scope. The TargetType property of a Style object is typically set, which makes the Style applicable to that type, which can be any type, even a type of a custom control.

In this example, the applied style works on Button objects. Trying to apply the same to some other element type will cause a runtime exception.

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