August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
490 pages
9h 14m
English
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Presentation tier foundation
Let's start things off by creating the visual layout of our application by following these steps:
- Start a new Visual Studio instance.
- Create a new WPF application project called
Northwind.UI.WPF, and name the solutionNorthwind. - Add a folder to
Northwind.UI.WPFcalledSkins, and add a newResource Dictionary (WPF)file to that folder calledMainSkin.xaml. - Open
MainWindow.xamlfor editing and update it as follows:<Window x:Class="Northwind.UI.WPF.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/ 2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="MainWindow" MinHeight="350" MinWidth="525" xmlns:ViewModel="clr-namespace:Northwind.ViewModel; assembly=Northwind.ViewModel" DataContext="{Binding ...
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