Building a data-driven master/detail business table in WPF using Visual Studio 2010

Overview

In this experiment, you will learn how to create and customize the master/Detail business table in WPF 4.0 using the Visual Studio 2010 tool.

Goal

After you complete this experiment, you will learn to:

How to use the Data Sources window in a WPF project to create an initial bracket to bind your application's data

How to "draw" data binding in an existing WPF control using the Data Sources window

How to use the Data Sources window to create a master/detail bracket

How to customize the output of the Data Sources window to create a custom view in the Visual Studio 2010 Property Browser using the DataBinding Expression Builder

How to use markup extension IntelliSense to create a data-binding expression

How to extract common skins into resources using the Extract Resources feature in Visual Studio 2010

How to apply a common look to a control using the resource selector feature of Visual Studio 2010

Scheme

The application built in this experiment is a read-only representation of an application that can be used to manage and view individual business projects within the real estate agents office. The technology used can be applied to almost all data-driven client application scenarios.

Practice

This hands-on experiment consists of the following exercises:

To create a data bracket for an application

Create a main outline/detail bracket

Creating and using Resources

Estimated time to complete this experiment: 45 minutes.

Prerequisite

Before you begin this experiment, you should have a basic understanding of the following products or technologies:

Data-driven application UI development

Windows Presentation Foundation

System Requirements

You must have the following tools to complete this experiment:

Visual Studio 2010

. NET Framework 4