Chapter 3. Basic Event Handling

The previous chapters have demonstrated how you can instantiate and initialize elements and other objects in either XAML or code. The most common procedure is to use XAML to define the initial layout and appearance of elements on a page but then to change properties of these elements from code as the program is running.

As you’ve seen, assigning a Name or x:Name to an element in XAML causes a field to be defined in the page class that gives the code-behind file easy access to that element. This is one of the two major ways that code and XAML interact. The second is through events. An event is a general-purpose mechanism that allows one object to communicate something of interest to other objects. The event is said ...

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