Course API Comparison Chapter C5: A WPF Browser Application written in Xaml and C# Copyright © by V. Miszalok, last update: 21-09-2010

For an introduction into Microsofts XAML see: XAML.
For an introduction into Microsofts XAML Browser Application-API see: XBAP.

Preliminaries

Guidance for Visual C# 2010 Express Edition:

1) Main Menu after start of VS 2010: Tools → Options → check lower left checkbox: Show all Settings → Projects and Solutions → Visual Studio projects location: → C:\temp.

2) Main Menu after start of VS 2010: File → New Project... → Visual Studio installed templates: WPF Browser Application
Name: compareWPF_Browser → OK.

Page1.xaml

Replace the default code of Page1.xaml by the following lines:

<Page x:Class="compareWPF_Browser.Page1"
 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
 Title="WPF Browser Application in XAML + C#">
 <Viewbox>
  <Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2">
   <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="2">
    <Button Content="Talk!" Click="button1Click" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
    <TextBox x:Name="textBox" Margin="2,0,2,0" MinWidth="300" TextAlignment="Center"/>
    <Button Content="Clear" Click="button2Click" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
   </StackPanel>
  </Border>
 </Viewbox>
</Page>

Page1.xaml.cs

Replace the default code of Page1.xaml.cs by the following lines:

using System;
using System.Windows.Controls;

namespace compareWPF_Browser
{ public partial class Page1:Page
  { public Page1()
    { InitializeComponent();
    }
    private void button1Click( Object sender, EventArgs e )
    { textBox.Text = "WPF Browser Application in XAML + C#. Resize!";
    }
    private void button2Click( Object sender, EventArgs e )
    { textBox.Text = "";
    }
  }
}

Click Debug → Start Without Debugging Ctrl F5.
Click the Talk!-button and resize the browser.
Your C:\temp\compareWPF_Browser\bin\Release-directory will contain a compareWPF_Browser.xbap-file, which can be executed by the Internet Explorer and by Mozilla Firefox.

top of page: