Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

7.5. The Last Word

In this chapter, you took a detailed look at the WPF application model.

To manage a simple WPF application, you need to do nothing more than create an instance of the Application class and call the Run() method. However, most applications go further and derive a custom class from the Application class. And as you saw, this custom class is an ideal tool for handling application events and an ideal place to track the windows in your application or implement a single-instance pattern.

In the second half of this chapter, you considered assembly resources that allow you to package binary data and embed it in your application. You also took a look at localization and learned how a few command-line tools (msbuild.exe and locbaml.exe) ...