WPF Tutorial Summary
• WPF is a new, supercharged GUI toolkit that ships with .NET 3.0 and higher.
• WPF integrates several previous APIs and desktop programming models into a unified object model.
• WPF introduces XAML, a markup language used to describe trees of .NET objects.
• XAML + Code = Applications. However, a WPF application can be written using 100% pure XAML,
100% pure code, or via code files.
• XAML can be authored behind the scenes using tools such as Visual Studio or Microsoft Expression
Blend.
• WPF controls are designed in such a way that their UI display is separate from their functionality.
• The Content property of the ContentControl base class provides a way to set content implicitly or
explicitly.
• WPF ships with numerous layout managers, which allow you to organize the content of a given element.
• Control commands allow you to associate events in a control-neutral manner.
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