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C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework, Seventh Edition
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C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework, Seventh Edition

by Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
43h 12m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 26

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Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML

When version 1.0 of the .NET platform was released, programmers who needed to build graphical desktop applications made use of two APIs named Windows Forms and GDI+, packaged up primarily in the System.Windows.Forms.dll and System.Drawing.dll assemblies. While Windows Forms/GDI+ are excellent APIs for building traditional desktop GUIs, Microsoft shipped an alternative GUI desktop API named Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) beginning with the release of .NET 3.0.

This initial WPF chapter begins by examining the motivation behind this new GUI framework, which will help you see the ...

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