Introduction, WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation (or WPF, as we will refer to it
throughout this book) is a completely new presentation framework, integrating
the capabilities of those frameworks that preceded it, including User, GDI,
GDI+, and HTML, and heavily influenced by toolkits targeted at the Web, such as
Macromedia Flash, and popular Windows applications such as Microsoft Word. This
chapter is meant to give you the basics of WPF from scratch and then take you
on a whirlwind tour of the things you'll read about in detail in the chapters
that follow.
I know that "Avalon" is now officially the "Windows Presentation
Foundation," but that's quite a mouthful and "WPF" is something I'm still
getting used to, so during this difficult transition, please don't think less
of me when I use the term "Avalon."
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