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Nail WPF in less than an hour
Rating: 4.1 out of 5(60 ratings)
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Nail WPF in less than an hour

Get the WPF basics under your belt. This course will give you a head-start in WPF in less than one hour and its fun!
Created byVivek Mehta
Last updated 1/2015
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Get any beginner started with WPF
  • Explain WPF basics in a simple and lucid language
  • Explain WPF bindings and MVVM design pattern

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 58m total length

  • Introduction and Visual/Logical Tree6:38

    Explore how WPF uses a visual and logical tree to compose interfaces, render controls with vector graphics, and handle events within a declarative XML structure in Visual Studio.

  • XAML - History, Usage and benefits5:59

    Explore how XAML enables declarative UI for WPF with grid, canvas, and panels. See real-time rendering in Visual Studio using Expression Blend and Silverlight, plus the code behind for binding.

  • WPF Controls in action8:42

    Drop and interact with WPF controls in visual studio, including buttons, calendars, checkboxes, radio buttons, and combo boxes, then connect events in code behind to display a hello world message.

  • Bindings in WPF6:51

    Binding acts as a contract between a source and a target control, so changes in source text box update target, with modes like default, one way, two-way, and one time.

  • Grids, Panels and Canvas10:53

    Learn how grids use rows and columns with column definitions and star weights to lay out controls. Canvases offer free-form placement and stack panels add orientation-based stacking.

  • MVVM Design Pattern19:23

    Learn how the MVVM design pattern organizes a WPF app into model, view, and view-model, using data binding and a data context to connect UI controls to public properties.

Requirements

  • A computer running windows 7 SP 1 or higher
  • An internet connection
  • Basic computing skills like filecopy, download, install etc
  • Understand audio/visual lectures in english language.

Description

Get the WPF basics under your belt. WPF or Windows Presentation Foundation is a fun technology to learn. It is the flagship technology from Microsoft and uses .NET platform.

This course will help you hit the ground running in no time. It will give you very good foundation on what WPF is and how you can get started writing application in WPF in no time! It will show you how to download the free tools and get started with coding in WPF.

I will guide you step-by-step on how to use Visual Studio Express. This is a free product. You will learn the basic tenets of WPF from ground up. Any person with absolutely no programming background can benefit from this course.

The course is structures in 6 easy to follow lectures. Each lectures covers a key point while starting with WPF. If you always wanted to learn WPF programming but never got round to start it, this is the course for you.

Who this course is for:

  • Complete Beginners with no programming background

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