WPF is a mature technology. It’s been part of several releases of .NET, with steady enhancements along the way:
- WPF 3.0: The first version of WPF was released with two other new technologies:
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation
(WF). Together, these three technologies were called the .NET Framework 3.0. - WPF 3.5: A year later, a new version of WPF was released as part of the .NET
Framework 3.5. The new features in WPF are mostly minor refinements, including
bug fixes and performance improvements. - WPF 3.5 SP1: When the .NET Framework Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released, the
designers of WPF had a chance to slip in a few new features, such as slick graphical
effects (courtesy of pixel shaders) and the sophisticated DataGrid control. - • WPF 4: This release added a number of refinements, including better text rendering,
more natural animation, and support for multitouch. - WPF 4.5: The latest version of WPF has the fewest changes yet, which reflects its
status as a mature technology. Along with the usual bug fixes and performance
tweaks, WPF 4.5 adds a number of refinements to that data binding system,
including improvements to data binding expressions, virtualization, support for the
INotifyDataError interface, and data view synchronization.