Starting out with WPF in F# – but first, C#

I've started to use F# with WPF, and thought that the best way of going about it would be to start with just bare code for the most stripped-down C# app that would do anything.

Most of the WPF examples out there start with too much Xaml - seems like it's just going to get in the way for now.

Norbert Eder's blog had the meat of this - I just stripped it down even more.

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;

public class App : Application
{
 [STAThread]
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
     Application app = new Application();
     app.Run(new MainWindow());
 }
}

public class MainWindow : Window
{
 public MainWindow()
 {
     Button button1 = new Button();
     button1.Content = "Bye";
     button1.Click += new RoutedEventHandler(button1_Click);
     this.Content = button1;
     this.Title = "Hello world";
 }

 void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
 {
     Application.Current.Shutdown(0);
 }
}

The project only needs a couple references – PresentationCore, PresentationFramework, System, and WindowsBase: