Here are some new features of WPF in WPF 4.5 that is also a part of Visual Studio 2012
- Ribbon control
- Improved performance when displaying large sets of grouped data
- New features for the VirtualizingPanel
- Binding to static properties
- Accessing collections on non-UI Threads
- Synchronously and Asynchronously validating data
- Automatically updating the source of a data binding
- Binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider
- Retrieving data binding information from a binding expression
- Checking for a valid DataContext object
- Repositioning data as the data's values change (Live shaping)
- Improved Support for Establishing a Weak Reference to an Event
- New methods for the Dispatcher class
- Markup Extensions for Events
Detailed features are discussed
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