wpf

# Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a UI framework for building Windows desktop applications. 

WPF supports a broad set of application development features, including an application model, resources, controls, graphics, layout, data binding and documents. WPF uses the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to provide a declarative model for application programming.

WPF's rendering is vector-based, which enables applications to look great on high DPI monitors, as they can be infinitely scaled. WPF also includes a flexible hosting model, which makes it straightforward to host a video in a button, for example.

Visual Studio's designer, as well as Visual Studio Blend, make it easy to build WPF applications, with drag-and-drop and/or direct editing of XAML markup.

As of .NET 6.0, WPF supports ARM64. 

See the [WPF Roadmap](roadmap.md) to learn about project priorities, status and ship dates.

[WinForms](https://github.com/dotnet/winforms) is another UI framework for building Windows desktop applications that is supported on .NET (7.0.x/6.0.x). WPF and WinForms applications only run on Windows. They are part of the `Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop` SDK. You are recommended to use the most recent version of [Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) to develop WPF and WinForms applications for .NET.  

To build the WPF repo and contribute features and fixes for .NET 8.0, [Visual Studio 2022 Preview](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/) is required.

## Getting started

* [.NET 6.0 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/6.0), [.NET 7.0 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/7.0), [.NET 8.0 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/8.0), [.NET 9.0 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/9.0)
* [.NET Preview SDKs](https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet/blob/main/docs/builds-table.md)
* [Getting started instructions](Documentation/getting-started.md)
* [Contributing guide](Documentation/contributing.md)
* [Migrating .NET Framework WPF Apps to .NET Core](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/wpf/migration/)

## Status

- We are currently developing WPF for .NET 10. 

See the [WPF roadmap](roadmap.md) to learn about the schedule for specific WPF components.

Test published at [separate repo](https://github.com/dotnet/wpf-test) Tests and have limited coverage at this time. We will add more tests,