Improvements in WPF 4.6

If you already have experience with WPF, you might be interested in getting some hints about improvements in the new version. Visual Studio 2015 inherits from Visual Studio 2013 some important improvements to the XAML code editor, such as support for IntelliSense with data binding and resources. The XAML code editor in Visual Studio 2015 also offers the Peek Definition functionality, which you saw in Chapter 2, “The Visual Studio 2015 IDE for Visual Basic.” Microsoft has also been very busy improving general WPF performance and support for modern hardware and touch devices. Controls such as TextBox and ComboBox have been improved to support common touch gestures and stylus input. In addition, Visual Studio 2015 introduces ...

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