Visual

Visual States in XAML

How VisualStateManager, VisualStateGroups, and VisualState define named, animated appearance changes for a control, and how GoToState transitions between them.

XAML Designer Tools

An overview of the visual and code tooling ecosystem around XAML, including Visual Studio's XAML Designer, Blend, and Live Visual Tree.

Control Templates

How ControlTemplate redefines a control's entire visual structure while preserving its behavior, using TemplateBinding and named parts.

Triggers and Visual States

Property triggers, data triggers, event triggers with animations, and the VisualStateManager system that governs how controls react to state changes.

Visual Tree vs Logical Tree

Understand the difference between WPF's logical tree (the XAML element hierarchy) and its visual tree (the fully expanded rendering hierarchy), and why the dis…

Visual Comparisons and Screenshots

How Playwright captures, compares, and maintains screenshot baselines to catch visual regressions that functional assertions miss.

Visual Testing and Screenshots

Learn how Cypress captures screenshots automatically and manually, and how visual regression plugins detect unwanted UI changes.

Choosing the Right Visual

How to match Power BI visual types to the shape of your data and the question you're actually answering, and the common chart-selection mistakes to avoid.

Your First Report

A practical walkthrough of building your first Power BI report: adding visuals, using slicers and filters, formatting, and publishing.

Installing Visual Studio and Setup

A practical walkthrough of installing Visual Studio, selecting the correct workload, and creating your first VB.NET project.