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What is is in your opinion the most cool feature of WPF that one absolutely should view at.

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Dependency Properties. Many of the most powerful WPF features are based on them.

Bryan Watts
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Brushes. All painting is done by brushes, and all brush types are interchangeable. You want to paint your text with video? No Problem!

Cylon Cat
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The dispatcher messaging architecture.

WPF Architecture

Build More Responsive Apps With The Dispatcher

Many things in WPF are over-engineered but I feel the way they designed this is genius.

ChaosPandion
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Xaml, as verbose as it is.

And data binding -- there's room for improvement, but it's awesome even as it is.

Rei Miyasaka
Data Binding + Item Templates = Awesome :)
Joey
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DirectX backend, control templates.

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