Chapter 12. Browsing Desktop Images with WPF
One of the exciting features of a WPF application is its ability to interact directly with the desktop. Silverlight applications have limited access to local resources, but WPF applications can read and write files to a user’s computer. In this chapter, you’ll build an image browser as a WPF application.
Creating the Layout
The image browser built in this chapter is shown in Figure 12.1. It allows you to pick a folder (or directory) on your local system and view any images there.
Figure 12.1. The final image browser.
Procedure 12.1. To set up the project:
Open Blend and choose New Project from the Startup ...
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