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What is difference between a WPF window and Windows Form?

There are actually a lot of differences between these two ways to make user interfaces for Windows. The main one I suppose is that Windows Form is the older standard, up until .NET 2.0. With .NET 3.0 WPF was introduced as the ‘better’ replacement. Here’s a discussion that weighs their pros and cons:

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SQLCE, SQL Server 2008 will both work. You can get both for free (express edition of SQL Server is free) from http://www.microsoft.com

I have done some very simple WinForms development and a bit of also simple WPF development, both with C#. Now, I want to choose one and settle on it. Which one would you recommend me and why?
By the way, could you tell me why the WinForms toolbox has more components than the WPF one in Visual Studio 2010 Premium?

There is definitely more flexibility in WPF. The learning curve is a bit tougher and programming is a little awkward with XAML. WinForms is pretty easy and you can come back to it at any time and pick it up. I am working in VS 2008 so I am not sure what the VS 2010 issues are. Certainly in 2008 the GUI support for WPF is lame.

Hello all,
I’ve started to learn about WPF UI automation and have been having some trouble.
I get the general way of automating a program to interact with another program to perform tasks but I am very new to VB.NET programming and it would help a LOT if someone gave me an example.
So say I have a program with one button and a text field on it and when the button is clicked the text in the text box changes from " " to "Hello".
button text = "Click Me"
button name = "Button1"
Text box name = "TextBox1"
Please include a code example of a program that would click "Button1" and then display a message box with whatever the text in the text box was(in this case "Hello").

all answers are HIGHLY appreciated!

Designer code:

<Window x:Class="Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas. microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1" Height="150" Width="250">
<Grid>
<TextBox Height="23" Margin="18,18,15,0" Name="TextBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top">Hello</TextBox>
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,53,15,36" Name="Button1" Width="75">Click Me</Button>
</Grid>
</Window>

Visual Basic code:

Class Window1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
MessageBox.Show(TextBox1.Text)
End Sub
End Class

I have started using WPF about two weeks ago… I have used WinForms for about 5 months. When I open Visual Studio (2010 Premium) I notice that the toolbox has less items [in WPF] than with WinForms. I have been searching for the timer control but haven’t found it yet.

Where is the Timer in WPF?
and
Why is the WPF toolbox ‘less full’ than in WinForms?

WPF has no timer control. That said you have far more options of every kind in WPF that you did in WinForms.

The object you need to find is DispatchTimer. You simply create an instance near the code where you use it and assign you handler code to its Tick event. That might be:

timer.Tick += MyHandler;

or even simpler

timer.Tick += (s, e) => { /* My code goes here */ };

I’m writing a small application in WPF/VB NET that looks like a regular form with several textboxes. Since it’s intended for use with touch screen, a kind of virtual keyboard should be implemented and put on the same form as the form text fields are.

What would be the best way to simulate keyboard input

it’s depend from your goals and project dead line. in case if you have a lot of time you can do it itself but in my opinion better way is to buy source code or similar project and integrate him in to your project.
in this way I would recommend you to visit http://fpscomponents.com/Products/WPF/vi… they have Virtual keyboard probably the same what you are looking for.

Can anybody tells me what would be the best way to build itself or to buy virtual keyboard wpf code?

it’s depend from your goals and project dead line. in case if you have a lot of time you can do it itself but in my opinion better way is to buy source code or similar project and integrate him in to your project.
in this way I would recommend you to visit http://fpscomponents.com/Products/WPF/virtual-keyboard.aspx they have Virtual keyboard probably the same what you are looking for.

hi
how to embed font in wpf 2008 (in visual studio 2008)?

Click on insert exisiting item –> choose the .tff file.

Otherwise, do it in Blend, Tools –> Font Manager (with far more options).

I’m just starting (self-study) to learn Visual Basic 2010 Express. I have a little experience in FreeBasic but this is my first venture into VB. Should I start with WPF or just use Windows Forms? I want to create gui apps (for my own use to sort/analyze/edit/display huge quantities of data), but nothing highly dependent on graphics. Is it easier to start with Forms, or should I dive right into WPF while learning VB? Thanx in advance.

I’d start with regular windows forms. But go back and do those same exercises in WPF.