Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorial Series

Topics include:
– Why choose the Windows Presentation Foundation?
– Exploring the project types
– Creating a WPF project in Visual Studio
– Exploring assemblies and parts
– Using the XAML editor
– Creating the UI, including tabs, details and controls
– Using data binding
– Adding styles
– Writing interaction code
– Using control templates , 3D parts, and effects

Windows Presentation Foundation 2: Layout The
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio 2015 provides developers with a unified programming model for building modern applications on Windows. In this course, the expert developer Walt Ritscher will walk you through the details of how to create rich Windows user experiences using WPF’s layout panels: basic UI containers used to position and arrange elements in XAML and other code. Explore the six prebuilt layout panels available, including stack, dock, and grid panels, and learn how to add rows, columns, and child elements; size and position content; and create a custom layout panel of your own for more precise control of your interface designs.

Topics include:
– Exploring the layout panels
– Working with the grid
– Adding rows and columns
– Creating scrolling content
– Controlling element visibility
– Aligning content
– Making custom layout panels

Windows Presentation Foundation 3: Events and the Event Model
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio 2015 helps developers build modern desktop applications for Windows. The event model is the WPF’s new system for monitoring and responding to application events and user triggered events such as keyboard and mouse inputs. It greatly improves on the. NET event model, and is an important skill for any developer who wants to create rich Windows user experiences. Join expert developer Walt Ritscher as he steps you through the details of working with events in WPF. Learn how routing works and discover how to navigate the tree (with event bubbling) and down the tree (with event tunneling) and stop events from moving around with event suppression. Then follow along with Walt as he explores many sample events, including mouse, text, and keyboard events and gesture events on InkCanvas.

Topics include:
– Understanding routed events and event signatures
– Wiring up event handlers
– Event bubbling and tunneling
– Programming mouse events
– Programming keyboard and ink events

Windows Presentation Foundation 4: Brushes and Colors
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio 2015 provides developers with a unified programming model for building modern user interfaces for Windows desktop applications. One of the most important aspects of any UI is color; Learn how WPF tools like brushes and the visual color editor can help you create more appealing and engaging user experiences. Walt Ritscher introduces solid, gradient, and tiled brushes; explains what properties are “brushable”; and shows how to specify color using RGB values, hexadecimal notation, and sRGB color space. Plus, learn how to use the opacity mask to adjust the transparency of different elements, and how to store brushes and colors in XAML resources, so they can be easily reusable and accessible from anywhere in Visual Studio.

Topics include:
– Working with brushes
– Painting properties
– Painting in code
– Working with RGB channels
– Using hexadecimal values
– Setting opacity and transparency
– Editing color in the Visual Studio Color Editor
– Using gradient brushes
– Decorating with tiled brushes
– Adding brushes and colors to resources
– Working with opacity masks for

Windows Presentation Foundation 5: Interaction and Controls
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio 2015 provides developers with a unified programming model for building modern desktop business applications on Windows. This course covers how to work with essential WPF controls and classes to create interactivity. Join Walt Ritscher as he takes you through how to leverage fundamental code families. Walt uses a custom app shell to show the examples and demonstrate the code in each chapter. Get ready to explore the broad world of interaction and control options that you can leverage by learning about the types of classes that support user interactions and the definitions of features found in UI elements.

Topics include:
– Interactions and controls
– FrameworkElements
– UIElement family
– FrameworkElement family
– The shape family
– The Decorator Family
– Control Fundamentals
– The Button family
– The Text Editor family