January 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1136 pages
34h 9m
English
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Chapter 5. Control Interaction
Early on in this book I made a distinction between classes that derive from FrameworkElement and those that derive from Control. I’ve tended to refer to FrameworkElement derivatives (such as TextBlock and Image) as “elements” to preserve this distinction, but a deeper explication is now required.
The title of this chapter might suggest that elements are for presentation and controls are for interaction, but that’s not necessarily so. It is the UIElement class that defines all the user-input events for touch, mouse, stylus, and keyboard, which means that elements as well as controls can interact with the user in very sophisticated ways.
Nor are elements deficient in layout, styling, or data binding capabilities. It’s ...