MikeTaulty_Wpf

1. A tour of Windows Presentation Foundation Mike Taulty Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd [email_address] http://www.miketaulty.com

2. WPF is a framework for rich apps

3. applications built with WPF

4. built in .NET on top of Direct3D *this makes graphics cards significant to the performance of the application managed unmanaged

5. there are 3 public versions 2006 w/Vista 2007 w/VS 2008 2008 w/VS 2008 Sp1 Windows XP Service Pack 2+ Windows Vista Windows 7

6. it provides a unified framework Vector Drawn H/W Accelerated Retained Graphics Logical Pixels Layout Composition Databinding Animation Transformation Effects

8. XAML is often “backed” by code XAML markup language defines UI .NET code handles interaction WPF .NET Application

9. tooling for WPF in 2008 Develop with Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 Design Styles & Interaction in Expression Blend 2 Sp1

10. “ Hello World” in WPF

11. rich set of 2D graphical capabilities

12. 2D Graphics in WPF

13. extensible facilities for layout

14. layout in WPF

15. rich set of 3D graphical capabilities

16. 3D Graphics in WPF

17. rich set of media capabilities

18. media in WPF

19. capabilities for documents & text

20. documents/text in WPF

22. many controls are content controls

23. content controls in WPF

25. templating a control

27. or look to 3 rd parties

28. 3 rd party WPF controls

29. a unified framework all with the same, consistent programming model

30. a unified framework

32. resources and styles

35. animations & triggers

37. databinding is core in WPF

38. databinding

39. deploying WPF applications XAML Browser Application (XBAP) ClickOnce Application Full Client

40. if we had a day...more topics *there are no doubt many more topics we’ve omitted 

41. more WPF?

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