C# - Wpf Sample Application

WPF Tutorial for Beginners

WPF stands for Windows Presentation Foundation, which is the Microsoft's latest and most advanced approach to a GUI (Graphical User Interface) framework with .Net. It is the development platform of choice for desktop applications and Windows 8 and all previous versions of Windows. 

WPF uses the declarative language XAML in WPF Application, so It's a combination of XAML mark-up language and C#/VB.Net/any other .Net language.

Top 5 WPF Features 

WPF comes with lots of advantages. Let me introduce a few of its features :-

1. WPF is Resolution Independence
   
   
2. WPF separates the appearance of an UI from its behaviour. The appearance is specified by XAML and behaviour is specified by a managed programming language like C# or VB. Net
   
   
3. WPF applications run within DirectX environment, It has graphics and animation capabilities. 
   
   
4. WPF has support for playing any audio or video file supported by Windows Media Player.
   
   
5. Highly Customizable. WPF supports separation of appearance and behaviours; hence you can easily change the look of a control or a set of controls. This concept of styling controls in WPF, is almost like CSS in HTML. In WPF, you can store styles, controls, animations, and even any object as a resource and you may associate that resource to the controls. Each resource is declared once when the form loads itself.

Hello World - WPF Sample Application C#

In this article I will give you a quick demo of hello world wpf application demo for beginners. A basic knowledge of C# is recommended when learning to use WPF. By creating a new project in Visual Studio, from the templates choose Visual C#, over in the list of actual templates choose WPF application. After visual studio settles down, we open up in MainWindow.xaml. 

Wpf Application for Beginners

It is the principle or first window that is created for you, there are a number of other files like App.config and App.xaml files. Find the code below :-

Wpf Sample Application Demo

MainWindow.xaml

<Window x:Class="HelloWPF.MainWindow"

        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

        Title="WPF Demo" Height="350" Width="525">

    <Grid>

      <TextBlock x:Name="Hello"

                 Text="Hello World!" /> 

    </Grid>

</Window>

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