Using Visual Studio Templates

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Complete the following steps to create a WPF project in Visual Studio using Visual Studio templates:

Open Visual Studio.
Click File menu and select New | Project. The New Project dialog appears.
Under the Installed | Templates in the left pane, select either Visual Basic or Visual C#.
Select Windows to see a list of available application templates in the center pane.
Select WPF Application template from the list.
Type the project name, set its location, and click OK to create a new WPF project.

Note: You can create WPF application in Microsoft Expression Blend and Visual Studio. However, Microsoft Expression Blend only provides the design-time environment to visually design XAML documents.