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[Adam Wilson]

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:23:50 -0800, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 03.12.2011, 01:16 Uhr, schrieb Adam Wilson <flyboynw at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:32:44 -0800, Andrej Mitrovic  
>> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What's so special about WPF? I'm asking, since I've never used it.
>>> Isn't it basically XML? wxWidgets has XRC which is the declarative way
>>> of making the UI.
>>
>> I'd have to say that the most interesting thing about it is the  
>> separation of Look from Implementation. You can create any look you  
>> want without changing the implementation at all. The fact that it uses  
>> XML is mostly to make it easy to use existing XML parsers to load and  
>> instantiate the UI. That's just my 0.02$
>>
>
> So is it like the Flash GUI where you can skin every control in a way  
> similar to using CSS on a web site?

Well, I don't know flash, but it is a bit like CSS in that you can  
completely change the look, WPF is just more flexible than CSS about how  
you do it.

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Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/