Windows Presentation Foundation Interview Questions/FAQs |
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| 1.1 What is WPF? |
| 1.2 What is XAML? |
| 1.3 What is XBAP? |
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| 2.1 How can I override the Logical Tree ? |
| 2.2 How can I enumerate all the descendants of a visual object ? |
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| 3.1 How can I create Custom Read-Only Dependency Properties ? |
| 3.2 How can I use Dependency Property MetaData? |
| 3.3 How can I register the default value of the State dependency property to be false? |
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| 4.1 What is Attached Properties and how to register it? |
| 4.2 How can I set an attached property in code? |
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| 5.1 What is a Routed event? |
| 5.2 How can I handle the input event through XAML? |
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| 6.1 How can I use an application resource ? |
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| 7.1 What are the requirements for a property to be animated? |
| 7.2 How do I trigger an animation when the data in the control is changed? |
| 7.3 What is Path animation? |
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| 8.1 What is a Freezable? |
| 8.2 How can I determine whether a Freezable Is Frozen? |
| 8.3 How can I obtain a writable copy of a Read-Only Freezable? |
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| 9.1 What is Commanding in WPF? |
| 9.2 How do I create a CommandBinding using a RoutedCommand? |
| 9.3 How can I add a CommandBinding to a window using markup? |
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| 10.1 When I try to add multiple controls to a button it shows an error, how do I add multiple controls to a button? |
| 10.2 How placing controls in a WrapPanel differs from a Grid? |
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| 11.1 How can I restrict the use of style ? |
| 11.2 How can I create an extended style ? |
| 11.3 How can I set a ControlTemplate ? |
| 11.4 How can I create a custom WPF button whose look and feel depends on the Windows desktop theme currently in use. How do I get notified when the user changes the theme? |
| 11.5 What are the limitations of Inline Styles and Templates ? |
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| 12.1 How can I map CLR Namespaces to XML Namespaces in an Assembly ? |
| 12.2 Which namespace is used to associate namespace identifiers with element names ? Is there any effect on the attributes ? |
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| 13.1 What is the use of x:code ? |
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| 14.1 What way can a custom class can be defined in XAML? |
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| 15.1 How can I apply the TypeConverter Attribute? |
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| 16.1 How can I create Four Button controls with the contents set to a String, a DateTimeObject, an UIElement and A Panel that contains other UIElement objects? |
| 16.2 Can I create a ContentTemplate and apply the template to a ContentControl ? |
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| 17.1 How can I create a ControlTemplate for a HeaderedItemsControl ? |
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| 18.1 How can I make a style for a ContentControl so that the control has an enhanced visual appearance ? |
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| 19.1 How can I get an enumerator to the ContentControl's logical child elements ? |
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| 20.1 How do I create a Borderless Window in WPF ? |
| 20.2 How can I animate a BorderThickness value ? |
| 20.3 How can I use Event Trigger to control a StoryBoard after it is started ? |
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| 21.1 How do I add controls to Panel Content Model type of controls? |
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| 22.1 How can I store a given document in a specific format using CreateSerializerWriter methods ? |
| 22.2 How can I use MemoryStream to create a deep clone of a serializable object ? |
| 22.3 How can I do versioning using Custom Serialization ? |
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| 23.1 How can I Match Annotations with Annotated Objects ? |
| 23.2 How can I create an application that is used to declare a Context Menu with routed commands that the users can access to create and manage annotations ? |
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| 24.1 How can I define three paragraphs under one section ? |
| 24.2 How can I use the BlockUIContainer element to host UIElement objects within Flow content ? |
| 24.3 Can I embed a figure into a paragraph of text ? |
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| 25.1 How can I programmatically print XPS Files ? |
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| 26.1 How can I create a combine hard and soft shadow ? |
| 26.2 How can I use a DoubleAnimation to rotate the textblock ? |
| 26.3 What is the order in which the controls are rendered ? |
| 26.4 How do I enumerate child objects in a visual tree ? |
| 26.5 How rendering in WPF differs from WIN32 applications? |
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| 27.1 When an animation is applied, the property value gets overwritten. How do we prevent the value of property ? |
| 27.2 Performance gets reduced even after navigating away from a page that contains animation. How do we handle this issue ? |
| 27.3 How do I apply an animation without using a storyboard ? |
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| 28.1 How do I apply BitmapEffect to a particular area of an Image ? |
| 28.2 How do I apply Transform when an event is occurred ? |
| 28.3 In what way CombinedGeometry is used ? |
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| 29.1 What are the properties that reduce the performance of a 3D graphics ? |
| 29.2 How lights are useful in 3D graphics ? |
| 29.3 How do I change the location of a model ? |
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| 30.1 How HitTest methods in VisualTreeHelper is useful ? |
| 30.2 How do I use DrawingVisual object ? |
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| 31.1 What is an adorner ? |
| 31.2 Where can adorners be used ? |
| 31.3 How to add a custom adorner ? |
| 31.4 How do I bind an Adorner to an Element ? |
| 31.5 How do I remove the Adorner from an element ? |
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| 32.1 Where can I find information about guidelines to be followed while designing Stylable controls? |
| 32.2 What are the different models for Control authoring ? |
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| 33.1 What is the use of a ControlTemplate ? |
| 33.2 How to access elements that are embedded inside the ControlTemplate ? |
| 33.3 How do I build an ItemsControl ControlTemplate ? |
| 33.4 How to edit templates using Microsoft Expression Blend ? |
| 33.5 How to get the default template of a control programmatically ? |
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| 34.1 How to use binding in XAML ? |
| 34.2 What is the use of the RelativeSource property ? |
| 34.3 What is DataContext ? How is it used ? |
| 34.4 Can ItemControl's Items and ItemsSource properties be modified simultaneously ? |
| 34.5 How do I filter Items in an ItemControl when the ItemControl's ItemsSource is set to a datasource? |
| 34.6 What are the uses of BindingModes? |
| 34.7 How do I update the source as I type in a TextBox? |
| 34.8 When an XMLDataProvider can be used ? What are it's specific uses ? |
| 34.9 How does TwoWay BindingMode work in an XMLDataProvider? |
| 34.10 In what way is an ObjectDataProvider useful? |
| 34.11 How to pass a parameter to a constructor using ObjectDataProvider ? |
| 34.12 How to pass a parameter to a function using ObjectDataProvider ? |
| 34.13 How can I bind a method and pass a parameter to the method ? |
| 34.14 How to Get or Set a value that indicates whether to include the DataErrorValidationRule ? |
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| 35.1 What are the objects involved in DragandDrop? |
| 35.2 How do I create a DataObject? |
| 35.3 How do I retrieve data from a DataObject ? |
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| 36.1 What is Serialization ? |
| 36.2 How to write an IsolatedStorage to an XML file ? |
| 36.3 How do I serialize objects to a binary file ? |
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| 37.1 What are the three types of Localizability Attributes and how to use them ? |
| 37.2 How can I set the Language property to the current user's UI language ? |
| 37.3 How can I set the substitution property by overriding the default substitution ? |
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| 38.1 How can I specify in the .proj file whether to leave the free-form localization comments in the assembly using LocalizationDirectivesToLocFile tag ? |
| 38.2 How can I add localization comments to an XAML file ? |
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| 39.1 Can I override the default categories for platform controls in XAML as well ? |
| 39.2 How can I automatically layout Grids Using the IsSharedSizeScope Property ? |
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| 40.1 How does ClickOnce deployment work ? |
| 40.2 Can I add prerequisites in my ClickOnce deployment ? |
| 40.3 How do I enable automatic updates for my application using ClickOnce deployment ? |
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| 41.1 What is the difference between Frame and NavigationWindow ? |
| 41.2 How does Rendering work in Frame control ? |
| 41.3 Can I add dynamic HTML content to a Frame control ? |
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| 42.1 Are XAML Browser Applications OS independent ? |
| 42.2 When I run an XBAP application, I get Application Deployment Error. What do I do to overcome this error ? |
| 42.3 How to navigate between pages in an application ? |
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| 43.1 How to set content of a NavigationWindow ? |
| 43.2 How do I handle Back and Forward button click ? |
| 43.3 How do I pass data between pages in a NavigationWindow ? |
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| 44.1 How do I add registry entries in a setup project ? |
| 44.2 How do I deploy shared components ? |
| 44.3 How launch conditions are useful and how to add one to a setup project ? |
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| 45.1 How do I create a child window in WPF ? |
| 45.2 How do I host Windows Forms control in a WPF Window ? |
| 45.3 Does WPF support MDI ? |
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| 46.1 How can I write Message Loops ? |
| 46.2 How can I HwndSource Treats ComponentDispatcher Events ? |
| 46.3 How can I set the Owner property of the WPF window to the handle of our main form using helper class ? |
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| 47.1 How can I use Windows Forms in a WPF application ? |
| 47.2 How do I host a Windows Forms control in a WPF application ? |
| 47.3 How can I leverage my current investment in Windows Forms applications and still tap into the cool features of WPF ? |
| 47.4 How can I host a Windows Forms Composite Control in Windows Presentation Foundation ? |
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| 48.1 How do I host a WPF control in a Windows Forms application? |
| 48.2 How can I Host the WPF UserControl in Windows Forms ? |
| 48.3 What is the procedure to host the WPF content in Win32 window ? |
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| 49.1 Will you provide a tool to convert Windows Forms applications to WPF applications ? |
| 49.2 What about user controls and third-party controls including ActiveX controls? |
| 49.3 Where do I find System.Windows.Forms.Integration ? |
| 49.4 Can I use a WindowsFormsHost element to host a System.Windows.Forms ? |
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| 50.1 How do I assign full trust to an XBAP application ? |
| 50.2 I am able to access the registry using full trust XBAP application in debug mode, when hosted in an intranet, the application gets crashed. What do I do? |
| 50.3 How do I get a custom defined permission set of an XBAP application ? |
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| 51.1 How to get data from database in XBAP application ? |
| 51.2 Does permission set of partial trust change in the Local Intranet and Internet? |
| 51.3 How do I detect permission for a file in a partial trust application ? |
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| 52.1 Can a WPF application be designed using Microsoft Expression Blend ? |
| 52.2 How do I add animations using Microsoft Expression Blend ? |
| 52.3 How do I add custom controls to an application using Microsoft Expression Blend ? |
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| 53.1 What is ZAM3D ? |
| 53.2 What are the file formats supported by ZAM3D ? |
| 53.3 Can an XAML file created using ZAM3D be used with Visual Studio.NET ? |
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| 54.1 What is XAMLPAD ? |
| 54.2 Does XAMLPAD support custom controls ? |
| 54.3 Can we see the output of an XAML using XAMLPAD ? |
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| 55.1 Can I delay the display of a ToolTip ? |
| 55.2 How can I use the ToolTipService properties to specify the position of a tooltip whose content is not a ToolTip object ? |
| 55.3 Can I use the BetweenShowDelay Property ? |
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| 56.1 How can I make a TextBlock editable when it is clicked and the value is committed when ESC or ENTER is pressed? |
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| 57.1 How do I prevent the user from changing the selected tab page in a TabControl ? |
| 57.2 How do I dynamically hide and unhide tabs in a TabControl ? |
| 57.3 How do I make the tabs in a TabControl appear on the bottom instead of the right? |
| 57.4 How can I add a style to a TabItem that is used in the TabControl ? |
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| 58.1 How can I create a ProgressBar and use an animation to simulate the progress of an operation ? |
| 58.2 How can I make the text changed by itself during progress? |
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| 59.1 How can I create and display a PrintDialog ? |
| 59.2 How do I display the PrintPreview as a maximized window and control it's zooming ? |
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| 60.1 How can I animate a Popup ? |
| 60.2 How can I specify a Custom Popup Position ? |
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| 61.1 How do I format numbers, dates and currencies in a TextBox ? |
| 61.2 How do I make a TextBox use all upper-case (or lower-case) characters ? |
| 61.3 How do I support browsing for a text file and reading it into a TextBox? |
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| 62.1 How can I use the attached properties of Canvas to position child elements ? |
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| 63.1 How do I fill a ComboBox with the available fonts ? |
| 63.2 How do I bind the values of an enum to a ComboBox ? |
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| 64.1 How do I bind a string array with a ListBox? |
| 64.2 How do I display items in a ListBox horizontally? |
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| 65.1 How do I create custom layout for StatusBar items? |
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| 66.1 How do I determine which button in a ToolBar is clicked ? |
| 66.2 How can I apply a Style to a Menu control on a ToolBar ? |
| 66.3 When I tab into a toolbar in WPF I can't tab out again ? What can I do to change this tab behavior ? |
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| 67.1 How do I make the Context Menu appear only when clicked at certain portions of the Control ? |
| 67.2 How can I enable a Context Menu on a disabled Control ? |
| 67.3 How can I create a shared Context Menu ? |
| 67.4 How do I make the Context Menu to close after a set time interval? |
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| 68.1 How can I create an Expander with a ScrollViewer ? |
| 68.2 How can I bind the Expander's header element's Width to the ActualWidth of the Expander ? |
| 68.3 How do I make the Expander button to be justified to the right, rather than the left which is the default ? |
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| 69.1 How can I replace the style of a DocumentViewer ? |
| 69.2 How can I extend the style of a DocumentViewer ? |
| 69.3 How can I DataBind DocumentViewer's Zoom Property to a TextBox ? |
| 69.4 How to load an XPS document into the DocumentViewer? |
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| 70.1 How can I load an XAML file into a FlowDocumentReader? |
| 70.2 How can I save the contents of a FlowDocumentReader as an XAML file ? |
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| 71.1 How can I create a GroupBox that has a title and a visible border that encloses it's content ? |
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| 72.1 How can I make sure that a GridSplitter Is visible ? |
| 72.2 How can I create and use a GridLengthConverter Object ? |
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| 73.1 How can I convert an Image to grayscale ? |
| 73.2 How can I crop an Image ? |
| 73.3 Why does adding images to an ImageList in the Designer cause them to lose their alpha channel ? |
| 73.4 How to rotate an image ? |
| 73.5 How do I access / edit the metadata associated with an Image ? |
| 73.6 How can the DrawVisual be used for rendering images ? |
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| 74.1 How do I enable the mnemonics (underlines) being displayed when an application is launched ? |
| 74.2 How can I style a Separator used as a Menu Item ? |
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| 75.1 How can I use the member values of the enumeration to set the HorizontalScrollBarVisibility property of the ScrollViewer control ? |
| 75.2 How can I use the Content-Scrolling Methods of ScrollViewer ? |
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| 76.1 How can I customize the Ticks on a Slider ? |
| 76.2 Can I bind two sliders in two different windows ? |
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| 77.1 How do I add a hyperlink to a RichTextBox control ? |
| 77.2 How do I create and save a RichTextFormat (RTF) file? |
| 77.3 How do I support drag-and-drop for a RichTextBox? |
| 77.4 How can I Save, Load, and Print RichTextBox Content ? |
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| 78.1 How can I animate the thickness of a border by using ThicknessAnimation ? |
| 78.2 How can I use a BulletDecorator control that uses an image as the Bullet and a non-text element as the Child ? |
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| 79.1 How do I change the shape of the button to an ellipse? |
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