WPF Simple Application Walkthrough

This walkthrough shows how to build a simple Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application with the WPF Designer. 

Requirements:

• Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate.
• This lab is available in C# only. 

In this walkthrough, you will perform the following tasks:

1. Prepare the window for controls.
2. Add controls to the form.
3. Create the data source.
4. Connect to the data source.
5. Bind the TreeView to the data source.
6. Bind the ListView controls to the data source.

When you are finished, you will have a simple application which lets you browse the “My Documents” file system. The following illustration shows how your application will appear.

Getting Started

1. Download the WPFSimpleAppLab.vsix file.
2. Open the WPFSimpleAppLab.vsix file to install it (Restart Visual Studio if it is running during install)
3. Start Visual Studio
4. Select File / New Project
5. Under Installed Templates Visual C$, select WPF Labs
6. Select WPF Application Walkthrough

This opens a C# WPF Application.  We're interested in whether people find having the walkthrough integrated with Visual Studio is useful.  So let us know what you think.

Thanks to Ron Jacobs who created theWindows Workflow Lab, which I used as my template, and Michael Lehman for his videos about Feature Builder on Channel9.