27.4. Building a WPF Application without XAML
Given all of the functionality provided by the parent classes of the Window type, it is possible to represent a window in your application by either directly creating a Window object or using this class as the parent to a strongly typed descendent. Let's examine both approaches in the following code example. Although most WPF applications will make use of XAML, doing so is entirely optional. Anything that can be expressed in XAML can be expressed in code and (for the most part) vice versa. If you wish, it is possible to build a complete WPF project using the underlying object model and procedural code.
To illustrate, let's create a minimal but complete application without the use of XAML using the ...
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