Introduction

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a open-source system for rendering Windows application user interfaces. It was released as part of the .NET framework in 2006. In many ways, it is intended to be a successor to Windows Forms. This chapter will examine the basics of working with WPF in detail.

Key Terms

Some key terms to learn in this chapter are:

Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Codebehind
Layouts
Controls
Component-Based Design
Composition

Key Skills

The key skill to learn in this chapter is how to use C# and XAML to develop WPF user interfaces that adapt to device screen dimensions.