Summary

Panels allow you to divide the display surface into areas with different layout characteristics. You have a great variety of controls that you can use to populate the panels of a display. Shapes , Transforms , and Animations allow you to produce dynamic graphical output. Using control composition, you can combine these features to produce practically any user interface you want. You can produce adaptive documents that lay out your content intelligently and make it easy for the reader to read. Alternatively, you can precisely position every single element on a page and control pagination explicitly to produce a document that appears exactly as you want regardless of the output device. What s more, you can do it all declaratively using XAML. This sure as heck beats writing a WM_PAINT message handler!