Getting Started with the WPF Designer

The WPF Designer for Visual Studio allows you to visually create WPF applications. Many parts of the WPF Designer will be familiar to Windows Forms developers, but some new functionality is also featured in this designer. This section contains topics for getting started with the WPF Designer.

In This Section

• How to: Create a New WPF Application Project
  Describes how to create your first WPF Application project.

• How to: Create a New WPF Browser Application Project
  Describes how to create your first WPF Browser Application project.

• How to: Select and Move Elements on the Design Surface
  Describes how to select and move controls and elements in the WPF Designer.

• How to: Add New Items to a WPF Project
  Describes how to add new items to a WPF project in the WPF Designer.

• How to: Add Controls to a WPF Window
  Describes how to add controls to a WPF window in the WPF Designer.

• Split View: Viewing the WPF Design Surface and XAML at the Same Time
  Describes split view, which allows you to view both XAML markup and the visual designer at the same time.

• Navigating the Element Hierarchy of a WPF Document
  Describes the Document Outline window, which allows you to view a XAML document in a hierarchical manner and to preview, select, or delete XAML elements.

Reference

• System.Windows
  This namespace provides several important WPF base element classes, various classes that support the WPF property system and event logic, and other types that more broadly consumed by WPF core and framework.

• System.Windows.Controls
  This namespace provides classes to create elements, known as controls, that enable a user to interact with an application.

Related Sections

• Getting Started (WPF)
  Contains links to information intended for developers that are new to WPF.

• Binding WPF Controls to Data in Visual Studio
  Describes how to use Visual Studio to connect to data and generate business logic and data bindings.