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    Rajc Guest

    How is Windows Presentation Foundation(Avalon) different from prev

    Hi



    How is Windows Presentation Foundation(Avalon) different from previous
    versions of windows form?

    Need your help.

    Thanks
    Raj

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    Bai Shi Guest

    RE: How is Windows Presentation Foundation(Avalon) different from prev

    You may want to see this article:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/refe...n/default.aspx


    "Rajc" wrote:

    > Hi
    >
    > How is Windows Presentation Foundation(Avalon) different from previous
    > versions of windows form?
    >
    > Need your help.
    >
    > Thanks
    > Raj


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    agapeton@gmail.com Guest

    Re: How is Windows Presentation Foundation(Avalon) different from prev

    WPF allows you to create rich applications which would previously take
    months in a matter of hours. The abstraction layer for WPF consists of
    possibilities not only for controls, but also for full 3D development,
    which up till now has been seen as either too difficult, too time
    consuming, or just useless.

    WPF also allows applications to be created in markup (XAML). One of
    the fatal problems of WinForms is the painful absence of a markup
    language like there is for the web. There was no ability to create
    GUIs using a powerful GUI and programmers were forced to either code
    things like hand or pretend they were VB programmers with drag-n-drop.
    In WPF, you can create a full appication in XAML just as you can now
    create full ASP.NET 2.0 pages using the declarative ASP.NET 2.0 syntax
    (i.e. ObjectDataSource + GridView + other declarative binding
    controls). Simply try in some XAML and the magic happends.

    WPF is also based on Direct3D. That is everything you do is 3D. Even
    the 2D text and 2D images. You have the full power of any 3D modelling
    studio at the tips of your fingers-- all without pointers and all
    without insanely impossible 3D APIs.

    WPF is to desktop presentation as ASP.NET was to the web. It finally
    brings a powerfully productive desktop presentation foundation which
    has been painfully absent until now.

    You can see my blog for some demonstration videos on WPF and XAML.

    David Betz
    WinFX Harmonics Blog
    http://www.davidbetz.net/winfx/


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