Windows Presentation Foundation 5: Interaction and Controls

This course focuses on the use of interactivity and controls to create visually appealing applications using Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching
• Set up your developer computer
• Clone the exercise files from GitHub
• Use Checkout to open exercise files from Git branches
• Tour the example app shell

1. Overview of Interaction and Controls

• Explore the control family tree
• Examples of FrameworkElement
• Modes of interaction

2. Work with Controls and FrameworkElements

• Add elements to the visual tree
• Review of Control Styles
• Review of Control Templates
• Add a simple Button template

3. The UIElement Family

• Overview
• Change the opacity level
• Show, hide and collapse controls with visibility
• Mouse events
• Touch events
• Drag events
• Key events

4. The FrameworkElement Family

• Overview
• Set a control cursor
• Use a basic tooltip
• Create an enhanced tooltip
• Work with Width and Actual Width
• Work with the Min and Max length properies
• Arrange elements with Alignment
• Work with Margin

5. The Shape Family

• Overview
• Use the Shape Stretch property
• Set the Fill and Stroke brushes
• Work with the line shape
• Work with Polyline and Polygon
• Use the StrokeDashArray and EndCap properties
• Create drawings with Path
• Use Blend for Visual Studio to draw a Path
• Hit testing with geometries

6. The Decorator Family

• Overview
• The Border
• The Viewbox

7. Control Fundamentals

• Overview
• Keyboard focus in controls
• Understand keyboard focus and IsTabStop
• Changing tab order with TabIndex
• Content alignment within a control
• Change font properties

8. The Button Family

• Overview
• The button
• Set the default and cancel buttons
• Click mode
• The RepeatButton
• The Toggle button
• The CheckBox
• The RadioButton

9. The Text Display Family

• Overview
• Display text with TextBlock
• Use formatted text in TextBlock
• Work with Label and content
• Use the Label as an Access Key

10. The Text Editor Family

• Gather text input with Textbox
• Select Text
• Use the SpellCheck
• The TextBox Changed events
• Use the TextBox methods
• Load file content into RichTextBox
• Show complex text with RichTextBox
• Password input

11. Additional Controls

• The slider
• The ProgressBar
• Work with date input
• Show and hide UI with the expander

Conclusion

• Next steps