Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - What is it?

WPF is revolutionary as it re-invents the Windows design and programming for the Microsoft platform. But why bother? I could write an article for hours and hours on the changes brought about with WPF. Here, I will give a very brief overview of the more visual changes brought about. History If you have had any experience programming Windows in .NET, VB6 or C++ MFC, you'll have heard of GDI. GDI (more recently GDI+) is an API which you use to render text images and other custom drawing functions (like lines, circles, rectangles etc). The GDI library has been around since Windows 95 and was a ... [More]