Each .NET release introduces a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This article teaches you what's new in each release.

.NET 10 Release Candidate

This section describes the main changes to WPF for .NET 10 Release Candidate.

• Overview of WPF on .NET 10
• Performance improvements
• Fluent style changes
• Clipboard changes
• Bug fixes
• Code cleanup
• New APIs
• Miscellaneous changes

.NET 9

More support for building modern apps with WPF with several theming enhancements:

• Overview of WPF on .NET 9
• Fluent theme
• ThemeMode
• Support for Windows accent color
• Hyphen-based ligature support

.NET 8

WPF added hardware acceleration for remote desktop apps, and a new control for browsing and selecting folders in .NET 8.

• Overview of WPF on .NET 8
• Hardware acceleration on RDP applications
• OpenFolderDialog

.NET 7

WPF added some key performance improvements in .NET 7.

• Overview of WPF on .NET 7
• Performance improvements
• Accessibility improvements and fixes
• Bug fixes