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marian
marian

Reputation: 477

Will WPF run on XP and Vista?

I am curious if XP and Vista are supporting WPF or not. I mean if some dlls will be missing or not. Thanks.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 19215

Answers (4)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 741

XP support is not recommended, i just had the case of the Window.Loaded event being fired too early ...

Upvotes: 2

Anders Abel
Anders Abel

Reputation: 69260

WPF is part of the .NET framework. As long as you have the right framework installed it will work. WPF was introduced with .NET 3.0. If you plan to use it, I recommend going for .NET 4.0 as it has matured with each version.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation

WinXP was not shipped with any .NET Framework included, it has to be installed separately. Vista included 3.0. Windows 7 included 3.5. I think that it is safe to assume that 99% of all Windows computers out there have a recent .NET framework version installed since so many apps require it.

Upvotes: 9

radzio
radzio

Reputation: 2892

It will work on Vista and Windows if you have .NET installed. Framework will handle all gui differences between XP and Vista/7 by itself ;-)

Upvotes: 1

Matt Seymour
Matt Seymour

Reputation: 9395

As long as the correct version of .net is installed (3 or 4) on the machine then yes you will be able to run applications.

.Net should come installed on the users machine out of the box. Though it may require some updates being installed in order for it to be at the latest version.

Upvotes: 1

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