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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition
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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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UIElement

System.Objec
    System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherObject
        System.Windows.DependencyObject
            System.Windows.Media.Visual
                System.Windows.UIElement

UIElement provides access to the rendering services implemented by Visual by offering protected wrappers around the relevant internal features of Visual. UIElement also implements input handling and WPF's routed event system. It provides the low-level aspects of the layout system, although this goes only as far as basic sizing and positioning—FrameworkElement extends this to provide the full layout system we describe in Chapter 3. Finally, UIElement provides basic animation support, although FrameworkElement builds on this to provide the full set of services we describe in Chapter 16.

UIElement may seem like a strange halfway house, providing an incomplete set of services to be finished off by FrameworkElement. This structure arises because WPF is built in layers—there is a split between the so-called core and framework parts. The core classes are defined in PresentationCore.dll and the framework classes are defined in PresentationFramework.dll. This split is designed to enable developers to use the low-level rendering and animation services of WPF without having to use the full framework. For example, it would technically be possible to write an HTML engine that uses the WPF core for rendering (although no such thing has been built at the time of this writing). That particular example would have no use for framework-level services—HTML ...

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