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Dazzling Graphics: Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs in Windows Presentation Foundation

Overview The current Win32-based Windows UI graphics subsystem, found in Windows XP, has been around for nearly 20 years. It's aging and limited, and as a result, user interface development has been somewhat, well, constrained at best. The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which is built on the .NET Framework, provides new techniques for developing applications, and makes better use of current hardware and technologies. This paper shows one 10 of the most significant advances that make WPF superior to its Win32 forebears.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2006	Downloads	4
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