Is WPF yet another GUI toolkit like WinForms with some enhanced features? What other GUI toolkits are available for .Net? I am new to .Net and I believe that WinForms is a GUI Toolkit as per: http://www.mono-project.com/Gui_Toolkits
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WPF is indeed the most recent Desktop GUI toolkit for Windows OS – Luis Filipe Feb 14 '12 at 09:23
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@LuisFilipe - almost, WinRT is the most recent Desktop GUI ;-) – ColinE Feb 14 '12 at 11:02
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Thanks Luis Filepe and ColinE! – DDC Feb 14 '12 at 14:00
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From (the very first sentence of) Wikipedia's page on WPF:
Developed by Microsoft, the Windows Presentation Foundation (or WPF) is a computer-software graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications
So ... yes.
Other GUI toolkits for .NET include
- Windows Forms
- Windows Presentation Foundation
- ASP.NET
- Silverlight
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7This correctly answers the first part of the question: `Is WPF yet another GUI toolkit?`. The answer to the second part, `Is WPF [...] like WinForms with some enhanced features?` is a resounding NO. It is in no way based on WinForms. It is a GUI toolkit completely built from scratch with a vastly different feature set, and in my opinion, not even comparable to WinForms. – Allon Guralnek Feb 14 '12 at 10:19