Most flexible UI Framework for Windows endpoint?

Question

I am tasked with designing and implementing a flexible UI solution for deployment across a series of "kiosk"-ed Windows endpoints. There is some debate about what is the considered to be the best technology solution for the actual UI itself. The requirements are:

• Must be hardware accelerated
• Must play WMV video (for licensing reasons)
• Must be skinnable/themeable.
• Must support off-screen rendering.

Answer 1

WPF handles all of those.

It is fully HW accelerated. It plays WMV through MediaElement class. It was designed with themability from the begining, not unlike many bolt-on solutions found in WinForms libraries. And it allows rendering of visuals into a bitmap through RenderTargetBitmap, which I assume you mean by "off-screen rendering".