Exam 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation Study Links – Part 2

Back in may I posted Part 1 of this series on my old blog. Looking at the statistics it turned out to be one of the highly visited post. Recently I also had a comment asking me when I was publishing other parts of study links. Continuing the same trend here is the second part of this series.

Building user interfaces

Select and configure content controls

1. Controls Overview
2. Controls by Category
3. Content Control Class (Also read about all controls that inherit from ContentControl)

Select and configure layout panels

1. The Layout System
2. A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 2 (Layout)
3. WPF Layout Basics
4. Layout in Windows Presentation Foundation

Integrate Windows Forms controls into a WPF application

1. WindowsFormsHost Class
2. ElementHost Class
3. WPF vs. Windows Forms (read this to get an understanding of both sides)
4. WinForms and WPF Interop – The Best of Both Worlds
5. Walking Through Avalon and Windows Forms Interoperability in Code (This article is a bit old but anything goes for shameless self promotion :))
6. Windows Forms Interop with WPF (Screencast)

Create user and custom Controls

1. Creating Custom WPF Controls
2. WPF Custom Control Dependency Property Gotcha
3. How to Add Commands to Custom WPF Control
4. Recommended practices for WPF Custom Control developers (old source but still relevant)
5. Initializing controls within your WPF custom control template (good tip)

These links should get you started with Building User Interfaces skills requirement for Exam 70-502 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Presentation Foundation Application Development