Improvements in WPF 4

Several improvements were introduced to WPF with .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008; but with .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, WPF reaches a high level of productivity. You can now build applications with full Windows 7 support and with multitouch features. The Visual Studio 2010 designer has been highly improved to make your WPF experience even more straightforward (including the visual data-binding new user controls such as the DataGrid). If you played with previous editions of WPF, you may remember how the designer lacked some important features that were instead available in the Windows Forms Designer. Now lots of things have been fixed and improved so that existing Windows Forms developers can move ...

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