Chapter 32. WPF Common Controls

Being a technology for Windows client applications, Windows Presentation Foundations offers built-in controls that you can immediately use in your applications to build rich user interfaces. Obviously you can also build your own custom controls. WPF 4 offers a good standard toolbox ready to be consumed, provided by the System.Windows.Controls namespace. If you are new to WPF and you come from the Windows Forms experience, you can certainly find differences in controls implementation between the two technologies, but, fortunately, you will feel at home because of names; ...

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