Chapter 4. Introducing WPF’s Controls

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No modern presentation framework would be complete without a standard set of controls that enables you to quickly assemble traditional user interfaces. And Windows Presentation Foundation has plenty of such controls included “in the box.” You’ve seen a few of them in previous chapters, but this chapter takes you on a tour of the major built-in controls, highlighting some of what makes each control unique.

The figures in this book show WPF controls under Windows Vista’s default Aero theme. Most WPF controls contain several distinct default appearances, however. That’s because WPF ships with theme DLLs containing control ...

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