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Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation

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As you have seen over the course of Chapters 19, 20, and 21, the System.Windows.Forms.dll and System.Drawing.dll assemblies provide numerous types that can be used to build sophisticated desktop user interfaces using the Windows Forms API. While it is true that Windows Forms/GDI+ is still entirely supported under .NET 3.0, we are now provided with a brand-new desktop API termed Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF; sometimes referred to by its code name, “Avalon”).

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(2007). Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation. In: Pro C# with .NET 3.0. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0201-1_27

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