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Article: How to code with Vista's WPF.(Windows Presentation Foundation)(Microsoft Windows Vista)
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- Personal Computer World
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- November 10, 2006
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Byline: Tim Anderson
How to code with Vista's WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation radically changes the way you design applications
Windows Vista sees the introduction of a new user interface framework called Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) which is among the most radical changes to Windows since its first release. WPF is also available for Windows XP as part of .Net 3.0.
To succeed against Apple and Adobe, Microsoft has to attract designers as well as developers. In a traditional Windows application, the design aspect is hampered partly by the underlying widget set, which is hard to customise, and partly by the difficulty of ...