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Sathish
Sathish

Reputation: 869

WinForm and WPF Form rendering

Pardon me, if it is a silly question. Can you anyone tell me how the WinForms are rendered (the background mechanism) Also how is WPF Form are rendered. In simple, i want to know the rendering mechanism of WinForms and WPF Forms.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 623

Answers (2)

Preet Sangha
Preet Sangha

Reputation: 65466

For WPF there is the WPF Rendering Overview or WPF Rendering Steps which states

  1. Render all children.
  2. Process OpacityMask.
  3. Process Opacity
  4. BitmapEffect
  5. Clip geometry
  6. GuidelineSet
  7. Transforms

Upvotes: 1

gehho
gehho

Reputation: 9238

Windows Forms renders its Forms using GDI+, while WPF renders its Windows using DirectX.

Upvotes: 1

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