Effects-Features Of WPF

• WPF provides for BitmapEffects, which are raster effects applied to a Visual. These raster effects are written unmanaged code and therefore force rendering of the Visual to be performed on the CPU and not hardware accelerated.
• In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, one of the new additions was the Effect class, which is a Pixel-Shader 2.0 effect that can be applied to a visual, which allows all rendering to remain on the GPU .