Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook by Kunal Chowdhury

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In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Installing WPF Workload with Visual Studio 2017
• Creating WPF applications
• Creating and navigating from one window to another
• Creating and navigating from one page to another
• Creating a dialog box
• Creating ownership between windows
• Creating a single instance application
• Passing arguments to WPF applications
• Handling unhandled exceptions

Introduction

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model to build dynamic, data-driven desktop applications for Windows. It was first released in 2006 along with .NET 3.0. It is part of the .NET Framework itself.

WPF is a graphical subsystem, for rendering rich user interfaces ( UIs ), and .

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