June 2012
Beginner
1000 pages
33h 35m
English
Before the sibling inventions of WPF and Silverlight, individual programming languages and platforms had a variety of ways of specifying the UI. Most touted the concept of separating the UI from the implementation code. In some cases, such as on the web with HTML and CSS, the representation of the UI was theoretically separated from its underlying implementation but not truly so until tried-and-true patterns, such as Model-View-Controller (MVC), were applied. In others, such as Windows Forms, the separation was due only to hidden autogenerated, ...