WPF Day-1

Introduction to WPF:

WPF: Windows Presentation Language.

·  It is a Next level of presentation system for building windows Client Application.

·  You can create Standalone and browser-hosting Application.

·  It is a resolution -Independent and Vector based rendering engine.

·  Application Development features that include Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).Controls, data binding, layout, 2-D, 3-D, animation and So On.

·  WPF includes additional Programming constructs that enhance properties and events.

·  WPF Properties are Dependency Properties.

·  WPF events are Routed Events.

·  WPF contains many elements.

Application Model:

WPF Provides types and services that are collectively known as “Application Model”.

Standalone Application:

·  You can use windows class in the Application that is called “Standalone Application”.

·  You can create and use Windows, Dialog Box, MesageBox, menubar in the Standalone Application.

Browser Host Application:

§  Browser Host Application knows as “XAML browser application (XBAP).

§  You can create and use Page(s), Page functions in Browser Host Application.

§  It can be hosted in the IE 6 and IE 7.

Application Class:

§  Require additional application-scoped services, including startup and lifetime management.

§  It supports XBAP and Standalone Application.

XAML Overview:

     XAML is XML based markup language.

     It typically used to create windows, User Controls, pages and Dialog boxes and So On. I give an example for create a Button in XAML.

<Window

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    Title="Window with Button"

    Width="250" Height="100">

  <Button Name="btn_Hi">Hi! </Button>

</Window>

Here, the XAML defines Windows and a button by using Windows and Button elements. Each element has attributes.

WPF Controls:

          Here, I will give some list of controls in WPF.

• ·  AccessText
• ·  Border Control
• ·  Button Control
• ·  BulletDecorator Control
• ·  Canvas Control
• ·  Calendar Control
• ·  CheckBox Control
• ·  ComboBox Control
• ·  ContextMenu Control
• ·  Datagrid Control
• ·  DatePicker Control
• ·  DockPanel Control
• ·  DocumentViewer Control
• ·  Expander Control
• ·  FlowDocumentPageviewer Control
• ·  FlowDocumentReader Control
• ·  FlowDocumentScrollviewer Control
• ·  Frame
• ·  Grid Control
• ·  GridView Control
• ·  GridSplitter Control
• ·  GroupBox Control
• ·  Hyperlink
• ·  Image Control
• ·  InkCanvas Control
• ·  InkPresenter Control
• ·  Label
• ·  ListView Control
• ·  ListBox Control
• ·  Menu
• ·  MediaElement
• ·  NavigationWindow
• ·  OpenFiledialog Control
• ·  PasswordBox Control
• ·  Panel Control
• ·  Page
• ·  PrintDialog Control
• ·  Popup
• ·  ProgressBar
• ·  RadioButton
• ·  Repeated Control
• ·  ResizeGrip Control
• ·  RichTextBox Control
• ·  SaveFileDialog Control
• ·  Separator Control
• ·  ScrollBar Control
• ·  ScrollViewer Control
• ·  Slider
• ·  SoundPlayerAction
• ·  StackPanel Control
• ·  StrickNoteControl
• ·  StatusBar
• ·  TabControl
• ·  TextBlock
• ·  TextBox Control
• ·  Thumb Control
• ·  ToolTip
• ·  ToolBar
• ·  TreeviewControl
• ·  Viewbox Control
• ·  VirtualizingStackPanel Control
• ·  Window Control
• ·  WrapPanel Control      

Now, I am trying to explain the usage of every control in WPF. I explain alphabetical order.

First we will discuss about AccessText.

·  AccessText :

          User can create an Access key using underscore.

Suppose user uses this below in the XAML .user gets error.

<Button Content="Ok" Click="btn_Clicked">

            <AccessText>_Ok</AccessText>

           </Button>

Error: The property 'Content' is set more than once.

Reason:

  Because we can use Content or AccessText in the Control.

Conclusion:

  I hope, you get some ideas about WPF and AccessText.Thanks for reading this article. We will talk about other controls in next Chapters.