Presentation on WPF

Question

Hi All,

I have just start to learn wpf. Can anybody clear me the following to give a presentation on WPF.

1. What is WPF?
2. Why we need it.
3. Difference b/w Win form and wpf.
4. windowsform vs WPF.

Geetha.

Answer 1

Check the following links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation

http://windowsclient.net/learn/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970268.aspx

Answer 2

You can check these posts/articles -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms754130.aspx

http://www.wpftutorial.net/Home.html

This site is totally dedicated to WPF, you can find a lot of information there -

http://www.wpfwiki.com/

If you are coming from WinForms background these links will also be helpful -

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/llobo/archive/2009/09/30/migrating-winforms-to-wpf-links-to-info.aspx

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/from-winform-to-wpf-a-quick-reference-guide/?utm_source=simpletalk&utm_medium=email-reflector&utm_content=Winforms_to_WPF-20100329&utm_campaign=.NET

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc165605.aspx

And as Mark said, use Google for best results :)

Answer 3

I can tell you what it's like to use WPF instead of WinForms, if you like.

• Easy to make clean separation between code and presentation.
• Easy to reuse styles, elements, etc.
• Microsoft UI Automation! And it works.
• Xaml binding is dynamic!
• Data templates rock.
• Pretty, pretty. I have yet to try Expression Blend.
• Prism shell makes dynamically loading modules easy.
• It feels more like writing a web page than writing a windows app.

I'm not a massive MS fan, but I do like WPF. Much more lovely than Swing or WinForms, anyway.

I made a little pet shop example on this open-source project here:

http://code.google.com/p/wipflash/

Browse the code at:

http://code.google.com/p/wipflash/source/browse/#hg/Example.PetShop

Enjoy!