XAML Developer Reference

Chapter 7. Form and Functional Controls

In this chapter

• Action Controls

• Text Editing Controls

• Functional Controls to Improve Usability

• Functional Controls to Control and Monitor Behavior

• Summary

Chapter 6, gave you a detailed overview of the key XAML layout and positioning controls, and of sizing and positioning dependency properties. With that information in hand, you are ready to start building user interfaces (UIs) with XAML.

The form and functional XAML controls are core, critical controls for building rich and interactive user interfaces. You usually add them to a UI as child controls of one of the layout and positioning controls in the XAML file at design time, or create them using code-behind to implement a specific use case at runtime.

Form controls ...