WPF Introduction
History of WPF
User 32 standard controls
- This is first step for Microsoft towards GUI based environment This API provides support to standard controls like textboxes, buttons, labels etc.
GDI [graphical Device Interface]
This is enhancement of user 32 API and provides drawing capabilities likes circles. Rectangles, lines But does not support the images.
- GDI
This API is enhancement of GDI which provide extra functionalities JPG, bitmap but does not support animations, 3D, Hardware accelerations etc
- Direct X
It supports hardware accelerations, animations, 3D and it is completely limited far gaming, programming. But direct X cannot used for commercial application developments
- We can say WPF is a layer on the top of Direct X which provides Direct X features completely for commercial application developments using WPF we cannot perform any kind of gaming, programming
WPF
- We can say WPF is enhancement of windows forms applications
- WPF is a next generation presentation system for building windows client application with very good and rich user interface elements using wpf we can create a wide range of both stand alone and browser hosted applications
- WPF is Microsoft next generation UI framework to create the applications with rich user experience
- WPf is included in .Net framework 3.0 version WPF combines user interface elements, 2D graphics, 3D graphics down ments and multimedia into one single framework.
- The back bone of WPF is completely XML based open standard in XAML. (extensible Application markup Language)
- The core of WPF is a resolution independent vector based rendering engine is that is build to take advantage of modern graphics hardware.
- Complete class library of WPF is incorporated with .net framework
Features of WPF
Application development in WPF
The application development in WPF is scattered into following 5 – areas
- Windows based desktop Application
- Navigation Applications
- XBAPS XAML Browser Applications
- Custom control libraries
- Class libraries