WinForm and WPF Form rendering

Question

Hi, Pardon me, if it is a silly question. Can you anyone tell me how the WinForms are rendered (the background mechanism) Also how is WPF Form are rendered. In simple, i want to know the rendering mechanism of WinForms and WPF Forms.

Answer 1

Windows Forms renders its Forms using GDI+, while WPF renders its Windows using DirectX.

Answer 2

For WPF there is the WPF Rendering Overview or WPF Rendering Steps which states

1. Render all children.
2. Process OpacityMask.
3. Process Opacity
4. BitmapEffect
5. Clip geometry
6. GuidelineSet
7. Transforms