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Lukas Boersma
Lukas Boersma

Reputation: 1082

Do any of the Windows system applications use WPF?

Context: I am looking for examples of popular applications that use WPF for their UI.

With Windows 8 and Windows 10, certain parts of the OS got a new 'look-and-feel', for example:

Do those or any other Windows system applications use WPF for their UI?

This question already provides a list of existing applications that use WPF: What real world WPF applications are out there?. However, I would like to know if there are any builtin Windows system applications that use WPF.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 202

Answers (2)

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354416

None of those applications use WPF. Instead they use UWP, which was inspired by WPF, but is quite a different framework underneath.

There are WPF applications in many default Windows installations, though. For example, the PowerShell ISE is one.

Upvotes: 1

themightylc
themightylc

Reputation: 324

You could try Snooping them to find out - It's not been updated for several years but I tried it on a splinter new 4.6 app I'm developing and it's detecting it and works fine. Whatever it can detect is certainly a WPF app - the inverse is not true however. That being said it did not detect calculator or task manager for me.

Upvotes: 0

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