Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 17. Building a Windows Application

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Understanding WPF

• Creating a WPF application

• Styling the layout

Now that you have completed the first three parts of this book, you should be familiar with the .NET Framework and C# language. You have learned the fundamental differences between reference and value types, including how to create your own types. You learned about language features, such as extension methods, automatic properties, lambdas, events, and exceptions. You now know how to create and query collections of data and work with files and directories in the file system, XML, and databases. In short, you should now have all the essential language skills necessary to create complex applications that ...