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ClockMeister20-Feb-14 4:04
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What you are talking about is more of a XAML nature. While XAML is a part of WPF, it is only the popular method by which WPF user interface items are expressed. WPF itself has a lot more to do with performance, binding, and event handling than just XAML.

For instance, WPF offloads almost all UI display processing to the graphics hardware, while Windows Forms relies on the CPU to process each repaint.

WPFs binding ability, arguably one of it's neatest and most useful features allows for true (and fairly simple to implement) separation of concerns between application logic and UI display logic.

I will also say that the UI elements have a very good dynamic sizing engine built under them. I could never have done some of the things that I have done in WPF with Windows Forms.
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