27. Windows Presentation Foundation GUI

...they do not declare but only hint.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

—Thomas Hobbes

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

Image Define a WPF GUI with Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).

Image Handle WPF user-interface events.

Image Use WPF’s commands feature to handle common app tasks such as cut, copy and paste.

Customize the look-and-feel of ...

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