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Visually Customizing WPF Applications… …or A Tale of Skins and Themes and Templates. *Note: Click on images to enlarge. So is a skin is a theme is a template? Are they the same thing? If there is a distinction, what is it? The good news is that whatever the answer, it’s merely an elaborative detail. [...]

XAML: WPF’S Markup XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) is the markup language for WPF. You do not need to learn XAML to use PowerBuilder .NET to develop WPF applications. However, we do enable you to modify the XAML in the Window Painter and in the User Object Painter, much as you may “edit source” within [...]

Now let’s examine the WPF-specific UI items that are new to developers in the PowerBuilder .NET IDE. UI Layout Panels WPF has inherent relative positioning. Parents of controls will dictate to the controls what space is available. The controls establish what location within the space they will occupy. For those of you familiar with the [...]

Migration to WPF WPF has introduced many different new concepts; Dependency Properties, Attached Properties, Commands, Routed Events. A design goal of the PowerBuilder .NET IDE is to insulate you, abstract you from the details of these new concepts and keep the usage similar to existing PowerBuilder. The PowerBuilder .NET development environment drastically reduces your learning [...]

Using PowerBuilder 12’s PowerBuilder .NET IDE, developers will be able to use their PowerBuilder skills to create WPF applications.