29Windows Apps
INTRODUCING WINDOWS APPS
Many options are available for creating Windows applications. When the .NET Framework was first released in 2002, Windows Forms was the technology to create Windows applications. Since .NET Core 3.1, you can also create Windows Forms applications with the new .NET. The “old” .NET (.NET Framework 3.0) introduced Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With WPF, the user interface is created with eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML), an XML syntax that allows flexible scaling. Silverlight (code name WPF-E or WPF Everywhere) was a technology that brought XAML syntax to the browser, and the Windows phone with a slimmed-down version of .NET. This technology needed an add-in with the browser. For some years, Silverlight was also the technology to create applications for Windows phones. The last version of Silverlight ...
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