Here is a simple example to get started with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Extensible Markup Language (XAML).
First, create a new Visual Studio project and select under Windows templates “WPF Application”:
You should see something like this in Visual Studio:
You will see a default window. Next, let’s add a button to the window. Open Toolbox and drag a Button across. Then, give the button a name:
Double click the button to go to the C# code. Add a line to display a message box:
Press F5 to run the code. Click Submit to see the message box:
Stop running. Go back to Visual Studio and note the XAML created:
Note the event on click which links to our C# code:
Clicking space in the attributes of the Button brings up several properties:
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