Pro C# 9 with .NET 5: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 9 with .NET 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6939-8_27

27. WPF Resources, Animations, Styles, and Templates

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phillip Japikse²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

This chapter introduces you to three important (and interrelated) topics that will deepen your understanding of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) API. The first order of business is to learn the role of logical resources. As you will see, the logical resource (also known as an object resource) system is a way to name and refer to commonly used objects within a WPF application. While logical resources are often authored in XAML, ...