Input and Commands

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) subsystem provides a powerful new API for input. Commanding is an input mechanism in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) which provides input handling at a more semantic level than device input. Examples of commands are the Copy, Cut, Paste operations found on many applications.

In This Section

• Input Overview

• Commanding Overview

• Focus Overview

• Styling for Focus in Controls, and FocusVisualStyle

• Input and Commands How-to Topics

Reference

UIElement

FrameworkElement

ContentElement

FrameworkContentElement

Keyboard

Mouse

FocusManager

Related Sections

• WPF Architecture

• XAML in WPF

• Base Elements

• Element Tree and Serialization

• Properties

• Events (WPF)

• Resources (WPF)

• Styling and Templating

• WPF Content Model

• Threading Model