Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Developer’s Handbook

Chapter 5. Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation

In this chapter:
What Is the Windows Presentation Foundation?
What’s So New About WPF?
How WPF Brings Designers and Developers Together
Extensible Application Markup Language
XAML Syntax Overview
ImageResizer—a Practical WPF Example

“You must please the eye, too!”

That’s what my Mom used to say when she had me set the table when I was a little boy. I certainly tried to comply with her aesthetic needs, but my own principle of “form follows function” contradicted hers, and I admit that that’s probably the reason why, ever since Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, I’ve focused more on Windows Forms applications than on web applications. (And it’s also why I never tried to become an interior designer.) Many ...