WPF 4 Unleashed

Chapter 11. Images, Text, and Other Controls

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Image Control

• Text and Ink Controls

• Documents

• Range Controls

• Calendar Controls

This chapter looks at a wide range of controls that are neither content controls nor items controls. Image, some of the text controls, and controls such as ProgressBar and Slider should be familiar to you—but with more richness than you might first expect. The Calendar and DatePicker controls are new to WPF 4. This chapter also covers a number of FrameworkContentElements (rather than controls) that enable the creation of flow documents, a powerful but lesser-used aspect of WPF.

The Image Control

System.Windows.Controls.Image enables images (.BMP, .PNG, .GIF, .JPG, and so on) to be rendered ...