Windows Presentation Foundation 5: Interaction and Controls

Course details

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio 2015 provides developers with a unified programming model for building modern line-of-business desktop applications on Windows. This course covers how to work with the 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 interaction and the definitions of the features found in UI elements.

Learning objectives
Interactions and controls
FrameworkElements
UIElement family
FrameworkElement family
Shape family
Decorator Family
Control Fundamentals
Button family
Text Editor family

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching
03 - Set up your developer computer
04 - Clone the exercise files from GitHub
05 - Use Checkout to open exercise files from Git branches
06 - Tour the example app shell

1. Overview of Interaction and Controls

07 - Explore the control family tree
08 - Examples of FrameworkElement
09 - Modes of interaction

2. Work with Controls and FrameworkElements

10 - Add elements to the visual tree
11 - Review of Control Styles
12 - Review of Control Templates
13 - Add a simple Button template

3. The UIElement Family

14 - Overview
15 - Change the opacity level
16 - Show, hide and collapse controls with visibility
17 - Mouse events
18 - Touch events
19 - Drag events
20 - Key events

4. The FrameworkElement Family

21 - Overview
22 - Set a control cursor
23 - Use a basic tooltip
24 - Create an enhanced tooltip
25 - Work with Width and Actual Width
26 - Work with the Min and Max length properies
27 - Arrange elements with Alignment
28 - Work with Margin

5. The Shape Family

29 - Overview
30 - Use the Shape Stretch property
31 - Set the Fill and Stroke brushes
32 - Work with the line shape
33 - Work with Polyline and Polygon
34 - Use the StrokeDashArray and EndCap properties
35 - Create drawings with Path
36 - Use Blend for Visual Studio to draw a Path
37 - Hit testing with geometries

6. The Decorator Family

38 - Overview
39 - The Border
40 - The Viewbox

7. Control Fundamentals

41 - Overview
42 - Keyboard focus in controls
43 - Understand keyboard focus and IsTabStop
44 - Changing tab order with TabIndex
45 - Content alignment within a control
46 - Change font properties

8. The Button Family

47 - Overview
48 - The button
49 - Set the default and cancel buttons
50 - Click mode
51 - The RepeatButton
52 - The Toggle button
53 - The CheckBox
54 - The RadioButton

9. The Text Display Family

55 - Overview
56 - Display text with TextBlock
57 - Use formatted text in TextBlock
58 - Work with Label and content
59 - Use the Label as an Access Key

10. The Text Editor Family

60 - Gather text input with Textbox
61 - Select Text
62 - Use the SpellCheck
63 - The TextBox Changed events
64 - Use the TextBox methods
65 - Load file content into RichTextBox
66 - Show complex text with RichTextBox
67 - Password input

11. Additional Controls

68 - The slider
69 - The ProgressBar
70 - Work with date input
71 - Show and hide UI with the expander

Conclusion

72 - Next steps