WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)

New are for Windows Desktop Application UI designing. Following are some of the main features

• Now onwards there are no WinForm Controls that we are using till .net 2.0. Everything is XML. Whatever you write will be the XML for the desigining. Officially Microsoft gives its name XAML
• Because of this XML everything you can do in Html pages will now possible in Winform design also
• Cascading Style like web is possible in Winform also
• Designer draw the screen in Photoshop just like they where doing for web page. And then you can do the same step as you were doing to convert that layout in html
• Provides new type of application known as "WPF Browser based application", which can run in Internet Explorer just like the ActiveX and Applets are running
• 3D modeling.
• Animation like GIF file can be possible for the windows form.