WPF changes this traditional approach. A programmer can layout the basic controls in almost any haphazard fashion and get the code working. Then a designer can come in later and completely move the controls around, add color, graphics and any other elements, all without touching any of the back-end code. You can create all of the styles, and even complete themes for a WPF application, as an external resource.
This means you may change the look and feel of an application without re-compiling any of your code! This would be difficult feat with a traditional Windows Forms application. Silverlight 3 even lets you create out-of-browser applications. Microsoft designed WPF from the ground up to loosely couple presentation and business logic. These patterns not only separate your business logic and UI, they also make it possible for you to unit test every line of code in your application.
While animation is not a prerequisite for many business applications, there are some areas where a proper and typically short animation can guide the user and make them aware of something on the screen that they might not otherwise notice. Animation such as this makes your application more user friendly and self-documenting. WPF makes doing simple animations very easy.
Windows Forms applications can be hard to scale when a user's screen resolution changes. WPF has built-in facilities for handling different screen resolution similar to the way HTML works with screen resolution. However, just like traditional Window Forms or HTML, you can also layout screens incorrectly and end up with applications that do not scale on different screen resolutions.
But, the capabilities to scale are built in to WPF. I have never been a big fan of data binding. There have never been enough hooks for the things I am asked to do by my clients. Data validation always seemed to be an afterthought, or again, not enough hooks were in place to do what was necessary for business applications. With WPF, Microsoft provided much more robust data binding and many more hooks exist that allow the flexibility needed for complicated business applications.
That is somewhat unintuitive because. NET core is best known as a cross-platform framework, but makes sense if you think about the history of WPF. Do we have to migrate existing applications to. NET Core? Microsoft suggests that new projects should be considered building on the new. NET Core platform where existing legacy apps which are in maintenance mode and are not business critical can remain on. NET Framework. The full.
NET framework will still be available for a long time. Your application runs on the newest. NET technology which was written from scratch resulting in a much better performance. Some of the legacy stuff from the early days that could not be removed from the full.
NET Framework were not transferred to the. All of this makes it much more efficient. You can run your applications side-by-side using different. NET Core versions. That allows your application to be independent of the.
You gain access to the newest features in Visual Studio around the new project file format, tools and SDKs which were created for applications using the. That is especially helpful in regards to continuous integration and continuous delivery. From the. NET Framework apps that there is no pressure to port them to. NET Core. We will be adding features to. NET Framework 4. While we do recommend that new desktop apps should consider targeting. NET Core, the.
NET Framework will keep the high compatibility bar and will provide support for your apps for a very long time to come. Not in the scope of this article, but also worth mentioning is that there are community created alternatives for the.
NET Core platform:. Of course, there are other projects including Blazor and Ooui which leverage your C and. The Microsoft new release of. This update will offer you an opportunity where you can have your application with a specific version of the. NET framework instead of relying on the version which is present on the devices of your customers. Now this is a big thing coming from Microsoft where it is making a move from WPF to. NET platform. Microsoft has really invested a lot in WPF by making it open source and making it work on.
One of the clear benefits of this move is that if you want to build a WPF application , you no longer have to stay within the. NET framework. This means like the choices backend developers had for frontend technologies since. NET core 1. WPF applications run only on Windows as it makes use of a lot of Windows-specific features.
This works the same for WPF applications that work on. NET core platform. NET core is better known for cross-platform framework , it is somewhat unintuitive. But if you look at the history of WPF, you will understand that things make sense here. When it comes to existing applications we have a doubt regarding whether we need to move it to the.
Now your application can not only run based on separate windows, but also pages. This is especially useful when there are various levels segments that require user input and visualization, since pages offer easier navigation between content. Therefore, if you have enough experience with WPF, you can easily star working with Silverlight with slight adjustments and vice-versa. Of course my list is in no way a final set of reasons — I am pretty sure that there are people out there who can list tens of other reasons to make the switch, others will try to provide arguments that the switch is not worth it.
The sooner you make the switch, the more potential you are giving your applications. Web Dev Zone. Thanks for visiting DZone today,. Edit Profile. Sign Out View Profile. Over 2 million developers have joined DZone. Like 1. Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.
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