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title: "Introduction to WPF in Visual Studio"
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description: Build line-of-business desktop applications with the unified programming model provided in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
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# Introduction to WPF in Visual Studio
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio provides developers with a unified programming model for building line-of-business desktop applications on Windows.  
  
 [Create Desktop Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation](/visualstudio/designers/create-modern-desktop-applications-with-windows-presentation-foundation)  

 [Designing XAML in Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio](/visualstudio/designers/designing-xaml-in-visual-studio)  
  
 [Introduction to WPF](../introduction-to-wpf.md)  
  
 [WPF in the .NET Framework](../index.md)  
  
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