Wpf projects for beginners to learn its magic. Or... at least I find them very useful while learning wpf in 2020. Most of them are adapted from MacDonald's book. But I tried to write it with newer C# features (with .Net Core 3.0) and seperate view from the rest (which the book didn't do often).
Here are lists of wpf techniques covered in each sub project:
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BombDropper
1.1 UserControl
1.2 Animation system and StoryBoard
*EventTriggers inside Animation
1.3 Hit test inside canvas control -
ControlTemplateBrowser
2.1 How reflection can be used to check source code of controltemplate inside each control
2.2 Treeview -
Custom Controls
3.1. Two ways to define "custom control" in WPF:
3.1.2 UserControl
3.1.3 Using themes subfile (seperate .cs file with view)
How to define Dependency Property inside custom control class
How to define callbacks of when Dependency Property changes -
Data Validation
4.1 Two validation techniques:
4.2 Validation rules: quick check in view, easy to factorize
4.3 INotifyDataErrorInfo: easy to check multiple properties at the same time inside Viewmodel -
Very Basic MVVM
5.1 A very basic MVVM implementation to unrealistic show students' info in grid view. -
RichTextEditor
6.1 A naive text editor that can create and update and save .rtf .xaml .txt format files using the RichTextBox control in XCeed Toolkit.
6.2 Two panels showing raw text and formatted text allowing to make changes at the same time.
6.3 More importantly, it is a more sophisticated MVVM implementation. Easy to scale up.
6.4 Since MVVM tends to have large viewmodel as the project grows, we can:
6.4.1 Create viewmodel base class and seperate viewmodels by their functions / business logic with a RootViewModel connecting to all
6.4.2 Create commands class
6.4.3 Create resource dictionaries in App.xaml (for instance: converters, color theme)
6.5 Using something as MVVM Light could really save time. Lesson learned.
To continue Wpf journey, I suggest to implement small applications (and I will do so!).
Here are some projects that I recommend and will start from:
- Dragabtz So coooool...
- MaterialDesign Really cool controls!
- Wpf Toolkit from Xceed Including very handy upgrades to default controls and frequently used functions not implemented by any built-in controls. Clear documentation.
- [MotionList] (https://github.com/MaterialDesignInXAML/MotionList) How cool things can be done part by part to form a mind-blowing custom control!
- [HandyControl] (https://github.com/HandyOrg/HandyControl) So many beautiful controls... Screenshot, PropertyGrid, various built-in & modern button styles.
- [MVVM Light] (https://github.com/lbugnion/mvvmlight) An almost must-have if you're tired to write down same code for MVVM again and again. But on the other side, every person has his/her favorite way to implement MVVM.