What exactly is WPF?

Question

I have seen lots of questions recently about WPF...

• What is it?
• What does it stand for?
• How can I begin programming WPF?

Answer 1

WPF is the Windows Presentation Foundation. It is Microsoft's newest API for building applications with User Interfaces (UIs), working for both standalone and web-based applications.

Unsurprisingly, there is a very detailed but not all that helpful Windows Presentation Foundation page at Wikipedia.

The WPF Getting Started Page at the Microsoft MSDN site is probably a better place to start.