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When version 1.0 of the .NET platform was released, programmers who needed to build graphical desktop applications made use of two APIs named Windows Forms and GDI+, packaged up primarily in the System.Windows.Forms.dll and System.Drawing.dll assemblies. While Windows Forms/GDI+ are excellent APIs for building traditional desktop GUIs, Microsoft shipped an alternative GUI desktop API named Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) beginning with the release of .NET 3.0.
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© 2010 Andrew Troelsen, Vidya Vrat Agarwal
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(2010). Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML. In: Pro VB 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2986-5_27
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