Chapter 8Building Desktop Applications with WPF

Key Skills & Concepts

image Perform Screen Layout

image Use Controls

image Work with Data in the UI

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a .NET technology for building desktop applications. The result of building a WPF application is an *.exe file that you can run directly on your computer or deploy and run on any other computer that has .NET installed. With WPF, you can add a graphical user interface (GUI), pronounced ...

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