Chapter 32. Introducing Data-Binding

Many developers erroneously used to think of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) as just a multimedia platform, especially when the first versions came out. WPF is instead a complete framework for rich client applications development, including datacentric applications. This technology offers a powerful data-binding engine, and version 4.5 provides the ideal environment for building great business applications. This chapter provides a high-level introduction to the data-binding in WPF 4.5 with Visual Basic 2012, discussing the most important .NET objects that you can explore in further studies by applying WPF-specific ...

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