This presentation is the first chapter of Intertech's WPF 4.0 training course. In it: Understand the motivation behind WPF, Examine the various ‘flavors’ of WPF applications, Overview the services provided by WPF, Examine the core WPF assemblies and namespaces, Work with the Window and Application class types, Learn the syntax of XAML, and Understand the XAML / code relationship.