wpf

A guide for building and modernizing WPF applications, Windows desktop programs made with .NET's XAML-based user-interface framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for WPF interfaces, MVVM structure, commands, data binding, styles, threading, and migration from .NET Framework to newer .NET versions.
Why use it?
WPF applications can fail through incorrect data binding, unsafe UI-thread work, styling problems, or XAML errors that appear only when the program runs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/managedcode/dotnet-skills/wpf
Any agent
npx skills add managedcode/dotnet-skills --skill wpf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/dotnet-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,969 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00122 $0.02969
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01484
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00297

Measured yesterday against content hash 45eb44a3182f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wpf scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

catalog/Frameworks/WPF/skills/wpf/SKILL.md · 413 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 413 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WPF

Trigger On

  • working on WPF UI, MVVM, binding, commands, or desktop modernization
  • migrating WPF from .NET Framework to .NET
  • integrating newer Windows capabilities into a WPF app
  • implementing data binding, styles, templates, or control customization

Documentation

References

  • patterns.md - MVVM patterns, binding patterns, command patterns, and reusable architectural approaches
  • anti-patterns.md - Common WPF mistakes and how to avoid them

Workflow

  1. Confirm Windows-only scope — WPF is Windows-only even when the wider .NET stack is cross-platform
  2. Apply MVVM pattern — keep views dumb, logic in ViewModels, use commands
  3. Manage data binding explicitly — choose correct binding modes, validate at runtime
  4. Use styles and templates deliberately — keep UI composable, avoid page-specific hacks
  5. Handle threading correctly — use Dispatcher for UI updates, async/await for long operations
  6. Validate both designer and runtime — XAML composition failures often surface only at runtime

Current Upstream Notes

  • The August 2026 WPF overview reiterates WPF as a Windows-only desktop UI stack with XAML, data binding, styling, templates, resources, and vector/rich-media composition. Keep WPF-specific guidance separate from WinUI or MAUI unless the task is explicitly a migration or comparison.
  • WPF exists on both .NET Framework and modern .NET. For modernization work, inventory compatibility constraints and use the current desktop migration guidance before moving project files, interop, deployment, or XAML resource dictionaries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 413 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 413 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 45eb44a3182f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wpf is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotnet-skills (477 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,969 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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