What is WPF and how does it compare to WinForms?

Question

I\'ve been looking at WPF, but I\'ve never really worked in it (except for 15 minutes, which prompted this question). I looked at this post but its really about the \"Flash\" of

Answer 1

From an implementation perspective, one of the main differences is that WPF uses a strictly enforced model-view-viewmodel M-V-VM architecture, with the view being defined in a custom markup language, XAML, the viewmodel being a class with accessible properties, and the model effectively being the data access layer. WinForms, by comparison, has no such explicit separation - although by convention the different aspects may be grouped in different C# files, its all still code. In practice this makes WPF development more like web DOM development, with the WPF framework running in the background and mediating.