I never really understood what WPF was, or what it did. I came across a program, though, that was written using the WPF and when I installed and ran it I was blown away. The program I downloaded was the Blu Twitter client, by Thirteen23 or something.
Seeing all the eye candy possibilities has me running through like 5 different programs, in my head, that I'd like to make. I may just have to put my XNA game development on hold for this.
Has anyone messed with WPF or written any neat looking apps?
Warrior's bot, superiority, uses WPF.
Technically, WPF is a divergence from the Win32 API for Windows programming. I can't see Microsoft getting away from Win32, but the truth is that, if they were going to, WPF would probably be a primary way to do it. It's a hardware accelerated-based API for rich apps; Silverlight is based on it (it was called WPF/e for "everywhere" when it was in early tech releases) and it's got its roots in .NET.
WPF foregoes the Win32 standard of having windows. Everything is a "Visual" and most classes have a fairly deep inheritance tree. The nice thing is that an appropriately-architected control should be able to be skinned any way a designer wants, without touching the code for it.
Quote from: MyndFyre on May 19, 2009, 02:31:29 PM
Technically, WPF is a divergence from the Win32 API for Windows programming. I can't see Microsoft getting away from Win32, but the truth is that, if they were going to, WPF would probably be a primary way to do it. It's a hardware accelerated-based API for rich apps; Silverlight is based on it (it was called WPF/e for "everywhere" when it was in early tech releases) and it's got its roots in .NET.
WPF foregoes the Win32 standard of having windows. Everything is a "Visual" and most classes have a fairly deep inheritance tree. The nice thing is that an appropriately-architected control should be able to be skinned any way a designer wants, without touching the code for it.
All I really read was the Wikipedia article on it. I think it mentioned that Microsoft was slowly moving in the direction of getting away from Win32. VS2010 was re-written, apparantly, using WPF. I'm installing the beta as we speak. It looks pretty flashy.
Hey! I use Blu too! It's pretty amazing.
If you decide to get started with WPF and need any help you can reach me on AIM @ WarriorR1337. I'll be glad to help.