Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Foundations
• Introduction
• Creating custom type instances in XAML
• Creating a dependency property
• Using an attached property
• Creating an attached property
• Accessing a static property from XAML
• Creating a custom markup extension
• Handling routed events

• Chapter 2: Resources
• Introduction
• Using logical resources
• Dynamically binding to a logical resource
• Using user-selected colors and fonts
• Using binary resources
• Accessing binary resources in code
• Accessing binary resources from another assembly
• Managing logical resources

• Chapter 3: Layout and Panels
• Introduction
• Creating a table-like user interface
• Dynamically sizing grid rows/columns
• Creating a scrollable user interface
• Creating a border around panels and elements
• Placing elements in exact positions
• Adding/removing elements to a panel dynamically
• Creating a tabbed user interface
• Implementing drag-and-drop

• Chapter 4: Using Standard Controls
• Introduction
• Working with text
• Using content controls
• Displaying images
• Creating tooltips
• Creating a list of items
• Creating a standard menu
• Creating a context menu
• Selecting options with checkboxes and radio buttons
• Manipulating tab order and focus

• Chapter 5: Application and Windows
• Introduction
• Creating a window
• Creating a dialog box
• Using the common dialog boxes
• Creating ownership between windows
• Creating a custom shaped window
• Creating a single instance application
• Handling an unhandled exception

• Chapter 6: Data Binding
• Introduction
• Element to element binding
• Binding to a single object
• Binding to a collection
• Using data templates
• Using value converters
• Creating a master-detail view
• Sorting and filtering bound collections
• Grouping bound collections
• Binding to multiple properties
• Binding hierarchical data to a TreeView
• Presenting data in a grid
• Validating data

• Chapter 7: Commands and MVVM
• Introduction
• Using routed commands
• Implementing a basic MVVM application
• Building a simple MVVM framework
• Building a complete MVVM style application
• Creating an undo/redo system

• Chapter 8: Styles, Triggers, and Control Templates
• Introduction
• Creating and using styles
• Applying a style automatically
• Creating a property trigger
• Using data triggers
• Creating an event trigger
• Creating a multi trigger
• Using behaviors
• Replacing the control template of a progress bar
• Replacing the control template of a scroll bar
• Customizing selection in a Selector control

• Chapter 9: Graphics and Animation
• Introduction
• Creating a custom shape
• Applying transforms on elements
• Manipulating a bitmap programmatically
• Creating adorners
• Creating property-based animations
• Creating path-based animations
• Creating custom animations
• Adding animation easing to animations
• Using custom effects with pixel shaders

• Chapter 10: Custom Elements
• Introduction
• Creating a user control
• Handling standard commands in a user control
• Creating a custom (templated) control
• Customizing a default template of custom control
• Creating a custom panel
• Creating a lightweight custom element

• Chapter 11: Threading
• Introduction
• Updating the UI from a non-UI thread
• Adding cancelation support
• Using the BackgroundWorker component
• Adding cancelation and progress with BackgroundWorker
• Using a timer to do periodic updates
• Using C# 5.0 to perform asynchronous operations

• Index