The Windows Presentation Foundation Platform

WPF brings a lot of new concepts and new coding territory with it (and can represent a fairly significant learning curve for developers). But let’s take a brief look at the overall architecture of the WPF platform and then dissect the programming model.

Physically, WPF is implemented with a series of three assemblies:

Image WindowsBase.dll

Image PresentationFramework.dll

Image PresentationCore.dll

Every presentation layer ...

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