WPF Walkthroughs

Walkthroughs give step-by-step instructions for common scenarios. This makes them a good place to start learning about the product or a particular feature area.

This topic contains links to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) walkthroughs.

WPF Designer Walkthroughs

Title	Description
Walkthrough: Building a Simple WPF Application with the WPF Designer	Demonstrates how to build a simple WPF application with the WPF Designer.
Walkthrough: Constructing a Dynamic Layout	Demonstrates creating a dynamic layout by using a Grid panel control.
Walkthrough: Creating a Resizable Application by Using the WPF Designer	Demonstrates how to create window layouts that are resizable by the user at run time.
Walkthrough: Creating a Data Binding by Using the WPF Designer	Demonstrates how to use the WPF Designer to create data bindings that connect data to a control.
Walkthrough: Using a DesignInstance to Bind to Data in the Designer	Demonstrates how to use the WPF Designer to create data bindings at design time for a data context that is assigned at run time.

WPF Walkthroughs

Title	Description
Walkthrough: My first WPF desktop application	Demonstrates creating a WPF application using many of the common features of WPF including controls, layout and data binding.
Create a Button by Using XAML	Demonstrates how to create an animated button.
Create a Button by Using Microsoft Expression Blend	Demonstrates the process of creating a customized button by using Microsoft Expression Blend.
Walkthrough: Display Data from a SQL Server Database in a DataGrid Control	Demonstrates how to retrieve data from a SQL Server database and display that data in a DataGrid control.

Migration and Interoperability in WPF

Title	Description
Walkthrough: Hosting a Windows Forms Control in WPF	Demonstrates how to host a Windows Forms System.Windows.Forms.MaskedTextBox control in a WPF application.
Walkthrough: Hosting a Windows Forms Composite Control in WPF	Demonstrates how to host a Windows Forms data-entry composite control in a WPF application.
Walkthrough: Hosting a WPF Composite Control in Windows Forms	Demonstrates how to host a WPF data-entry composite control in a Windows Forms application.
Walkthrough: Arranging Windows Forms Controls in WPF	Demonstrates how to use WPF layout features to arrange Windows Forms controls in a hybrid application.
Walkthrough: Binding to Data in Hybrid Applications	Demonstrates how to use data binding in hybrid applications that include both Windows Forms and WPF controls.

Related Sections

Title	Description
Visual Studio Walkthroughs	Gives a related list of walkthroughs for all areas of programming in Visual Studio.