Chapter 1. Create Amazing Custom User Interfaces with WPF, C#, and XAML in .NET 3.0

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) released with the .NET 3.0 SDK provides developers with a rich toolkit for creating compelling user interfaces for .NET applications. Windows applications traditionally present the user with a main window with menus, dialog boxes, and toolbars containing user interface controls such as buttons, checkboxes, labels, progress bars, and the like. Typically developers create applications by selecting the appropriate controls to represent whatever data are required for the applications along with any necessary actions and user inputs, and placing those controls on a dialog using the Resource Editor for Win32 applications or the ...

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