It's been months (almost 11) since Microsoft introduced its new developer platform, anchored by the WinRT application programming interfaces, at the Build conference in September 2011. That updated ...

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It's important that you first understand the fundamental differences between Silverlight and WinRT apps. Take a look at Table 1 for a quick comparison of each platform's technology. Windows 8 is more ...

There are two strategies that you can follow in pulling together the modules that make up your WPF composable application: Central Control and Distributed Control. Here’s how to implement both of them ...

Based on the image below, and what I have seen written on most blogs in reaction to it and what MS has been saying, it seems that WinRT is assumed to be a sort-of an updated CLR/.NET for writing ...

I'm playing round with my first WPF app, which is just a small utility with a progress bar and a cancel button for the UI. I want to be able to accept some arguments from the command line, and I'm not ...

After the first part of this series dealt with Windows Forms, we will now look at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows UI Library 3 (WinUI 3). Both GUI frameworks are based on XAML ...