C# 2010 for Programmers, Fourth Edition

24. GUI with Windows Presentation Foundation

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To mark up data using XML.

• To define a WPF GUI with Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).

• To handle WPF user-interface events.

• To use WPF’s commands feature to handle common application tasks such as cut, copy and paste.

• To customize the look-and-feel of WPF GUIs using styles and control templates.

• To use data binding to display data in WPF controls.

My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

—Rudolf Bing

Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one.

—Julius Segal

...they do not declare but only hint.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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