Recently for a bit of fun I thought I would play around with Windows Presentation Foundation. I come from a Winforms background, but I never really got into WPF development as my programming career steered more towards WCF Services development.
For my simple project I thought I would write a simple little game. The game is a board game where the game resides in the main application window. What I wanted to have was another window that pops up and contains the games main menu, with options like ‘New Game’, ‘Exit’ etc.
When I added the code and Xaml to define the window, I noticed that the window still had a close icon on it. I wanted to get rid of this because I wanted access out of the menu to be controlled by the menu items in the centre of the screen. This was easy to do in Winforms as there was an option for it in the Visual Studio designer. Unfortunately this is not easily supported in WPF, but after a little digging I found the solution which required a little interop into user32.dll.
