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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 2. Using WPF Standard Controls FREE CHAPTER 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

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For the first two TextBlock controls, the UI will have a plain text on it. The third TextBlock control will have Bold, Italic, and Underline applied to it, by specifying the FontWeight, FontStyle, and TextDecoration properties of the control. Also, the foreground color of it has been set to red, by specifying the Foreground property.

You can also set a different font to your TextBlock control. Use the FontFamily property to set it. As you can see, the fourth TextBlock control has a Lucida Handwriting font applied to it.

When you have a long text, which is not viewable in a single line, you can either wrap it to multiline or trim it, based on the available space. TextWrapping="Wrap", in the fifth TextBlock spans it to multiline. Try making the window bigger or smaller, and you will see that the TextBlock automatically adjusts itself to match the available space, whereas, the text of the sixth TextBlock control trims with the TextTrimming property set to character...

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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook
Published in: Feb 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788399807
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