WPF impression

Windows Presentation Foundation

The infrastuction of the WPF is MICORE.DLL, which is also a part of the new generation windows system--vista( vista's desktop manager relies on it)

Under the MICORE is DirectX.

WPF offers not only hardware acceleration but also high level services which is regarded as a revolution.

In old windows UI system（USER32 and GDI), customization of controls is a hardwork, you have to paint pixels for every state of the control you worked on. that is painful.

WPF offers high level services such as:

>A web-like layout model

>A rich draw model Rather than painting pixels, you deal with primitives --basic shapes, blocks of text and other graphical ingrediants.you also have new features, such as a true transparent controls,the ability to stack multiple layers with different opacities and native 3d support

>A rich text model

>animation is an intrinsic part of the services

>multimedia

>styles and templates

>commands --seperate logice from UI

>delaritive user interface-- wpf streamlize UI elements into xaml file. this seperate UI from your code and UI designers and programmers can  work in parallel.

 resolution independent -- use DPI unit and employs vector graphics