What is the most cool feature of WPF

Question

What is is in your opinion the most cool feature of WPF that one absolutely should view at.

possible duplicate of [wpf which features ?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1789162/wpf-which-features) — Kate Gregory, Jul 30 '10 at 17:39
If his topic is going to live, it should be made a community wiki. — Fredrik Mörk, Jul 30 '10 at 17:39

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:41

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Brushes. All painting is done by brushes, and all brush types are interchangeable. You want to paint your text with video? No Problem!

answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:41

Cylon Cat

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:41

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The dispatcher messaging architecture.

Many things in WPF are over-engineered but I feel the way they designed this is genius.

answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:41

ChaosPandion

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:44

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Xaml, as verbose as it is.

And data binding -- there's room for improvement, but it's awesome even as it is.

answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:44

Rei Miyasaka

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:38

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Dependency Properties. Many of the most powerful WPF features are based on them.

answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:38

Bryan Watts

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:58

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DirectX backend, control templates.

answered Jul 30 '10 at 17:58

n535

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