Games - WinFX

	Games - WinFX

WinFX is the name of a new set of managed code application programming interfaces that Microsoft will introduce in its upcoming operating system, Windows Vista to supersede the current Windows API . The Windows API will still be present in Vista, but it will not give direct access to all the new functionality introduced with WinFX. In addition, WinFX is intended to give .NET programmers easier access to the functionality present in Windows itself.

WinFX will also be backported to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, to increase the number of computers that will be able to run applications that rely on WinFX. Allowing an easier introduction of these technologies to developers and end users may be a reason for backporting them. On March 26, 2005, Microsoft released a Community Preview for both WPF and WCF to enable developers to experiment with the new technologies without running the Alpha version of Vista. Later, due to a proliferation of requests the preview was made available to the general public at Microsoft's website. There have been WinFX releases corresponding to each newly released Vista build.

WinFX consists of three fundamental frameworks:

Windows Presentation Foundation
(WPF), formerly code-named Avalon; a new user interface subsystem and API based on XML, .NET, and vector graphics, which will make use of 3D computer graphics hardware and Direct3D
technologies. See Windows Graphics Foundation
.
Windows Communication Foundation
(WCF), formerly code-named Indigo; a service-oriented messaging system which allows programs to interoperate locally or remotely similar to web services. Includes support for InfoCard
.
Windows Workflow Foundation
(WF) was announced in August 2005, and allows task automation and integrated transactions using workflows.

Other meanings

WinFX can also refer to a software product named "WinFX Reports" by swiss company Winformatix ()

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