什麼是WPF?

What is WPF

最近和一些同学一起吃饭, 大家问我在做什么东西。我说在做WPF(Avalon)上的control , 结果没人听说过WPF:-(。问我什么是WPF, 这可真把我难住了，我一般的回答“WPF有点象WinForm的下一代产品”，不过这显然和WPF实际的定义差别很大。虽然做了这么长时间，还真没法给一个很清楚明白的解释。今天在网上查了一下，我想下边这个应该算是对WPF/Avalon一个比较准确的定义吧。

The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code named "Avalon") provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences in Vista, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer. The functionality extends to the support for Tablet and other forms of input, a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.

 

WinFX是下一代的Windows API，而WPF将是WinFX的核心一部分，用于处理UI, Document, Media和用户交互。

 

微软关于WPF的网站：http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/presentation/

最新2月份的用户预览版可以从这里下载: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx

在msdn上有两个WPF讨论组：

1) http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=119

2) http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.avalon&lang=en&cr=US

 

另外还有几个关于WPF的Blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/ TimSneath的Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/atc_avalon_team/default.aspx 这是微软工程院Avalon组的Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/ Kevin Moore (WPF PM)的blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/articles/475132.aspx Tim Sneath给了一个WPF相关Blogger的列表

http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/ PDC05的一些Talk和Demo