Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

In this chapter you took a first look at the Windows Presentation Foundation technology. You saw what WPF is and how it is architected. You then saw how to create your first WPF application with Visual Studio 2015, getting a high-level introduction of the XAML markup language and the interaction with managed code. For the architecture, you learned about some concepts such as the Logical Tree and the Visual Tree. For the Visual Tree, understanding this led you to another key concept: routed events. These events enable the generating of cascade events through the hierarchical structure of the user interface. After this, you made a contact with WPF, understanding how you arrange controls within panels, getting also a first overview of all ...