Although Windows Forms
applications will continue to live on for years, developers embarking on new Windows development
projects should consider WPF.
nTip If you??™ve done a substantial amount of work creating a Windows Forms application, you don??™t need
to migrate it wholesale to WPF to get access to new features such as animation. Instead, you can add WPF
content to your existing Windows Forms application, or you can create a WPF application that incorporates
your legacy Windows Forms content. Chapter 25 discusses all your interoperability options.
About This Book
This book is an in-depth exploration of WPF for professional developers who know the .NET
platform, the VB language, and the Visual Studio development environment. Previous experience
with Windows Forms is useful but not required to get the most out of this book.
This book provides a complete description of every major WPF feature, from XAML
(the markup language used to define WPF user interfaces) to 3-D drawing and animation.
Along the way, you??™ll occasionally work with code that involves other features of the .NET
Framework, such as the ADO.NET classes you use to query a database. These features aren??™t
discussed here. Instead, if you want more information about .NET features that aren??™t specific
to WPF, you can refer to one of the many dedicated .
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