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Introducing WPF and XAML
Developed by Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in a Windows operating system. WPF is based on a markup language also known as XAML.
XAML, which is an acronym for Extensible Application Markup Language, is a declarative markup language available in the .NET Framework designed to simplify the UI creation. XAML is applied to different technologies; it is available for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).
The principal reason of having a markup language for the UI creation is to decouple ...
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