Windows Presentation Foundation

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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a next-generation presentation system for building Windows client applications with visually stunning user experiences. With WPF, you can create a wide range of both standalone and browser-hosted applications.
It is a Next-Generation User Experiences. Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, provides a unified framework for building applications and high-fidelity experiences in Windows that blend application UI, documents, and media content. WPF offers developers 2D and 3D graphics support, hardware-accelerated effects, scalability to different form factors, interactive data visualization, Windows 7 features including multi-touch, and superior content readability.

What's New in WPF 4 - feature review

.NET 4 is the best .NET release to date. I'm really proud of what the teams accomplished here, from the new features in WPF to integrating MEF, to the performance improvements, to the newer, smaller client runtime. Awesome stuff.
Visual Studio 2010
WPF Tracing Support
WPF Designer
Text
New Text Rendering Stack
ClearTypeHint
Selection and Caret Customization
Custom Dictionaries API
Graphics
Layout Rounding
Cached Composition
Pixel Shader 3
New Pixel Shader APIs
Easing Functions
Removal of legacy bitmap effects
Controls
DataGrid
Calendar
DatePicker
Binding
Binding Commands on InputBinding
Bind to Dynamic Objects
Bindable Text Run
Styling and Templating
Visual State Manager
Windows 7
Multi-Touch and Manipulation
Integration with the Shell and Taskbar
General
Client Profile
Managed Extensibility Framework
Parallel Computing
XBAP Script Access