Introduction To WPF

WPF stands for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a next-generation presentation system for building Windows client applications with visually stunning user experiences. With WPF, you can create a wide range of both standalone and browser-hosted applications.

The core of WPF is a resolution-independent and vector-based rendering engine that is built to take advantage of modern graphics hardware. WPF extends the core with a comprehensive set of application-development features that include Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), controls, data binding, layout, 2-D and 3-D graphics, animation, styles, templates, documents, media, text, and typography. WPF is included in the Microsoft .NET Framework, so you can build applications that incorporate other elements of the .NET Framework class library.

Architecture of WPF

Go to File menu choose new project and then WPF Application-as shown in below picture.

Then you will get space for working like in below picture.

Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)

XAML is an XML based language that is used as a foundation for the WPF. It allows forms to be created using a syntax very similar to ASP.NET and HTML. For example, a button in html:

<input type="button" value="Click Me" id="myButton" />

and In WPF

<Button Name="myButton">Click Me<Button>