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New Mexico .NET User Group
Windows Presentation
Foundation
Tim Huckaby
CEO, InterKnowlogy
Microsoft Regional Director & MVP
About…
• InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com)
• Tim Huckaby, CEO - ([email protected])
• Custom App Dev / Consulting / Software & Systems Engineering
Firm headquartered in Carlsbad, CA
• Microsoft Gold Partner managed in SoCal and Redmond
• Design, Architect, Build and Deploy enterprise class applications
• Industry Experts:
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90% of the company is published
Microsoft .NET Application development for 5+ years!
Microsoft .NET Smart Client pioneers / industry leaders
Information Worker Solutions
Integration / Messaging, B2B / B2C, Wireless / Mobility
Microsoft BizTalk Web Services, Microsoft Active Directory, Security, SSO,
Authorization, Authentication
• Solutions on the emerging Microsoft servers
• Largest Client: Microsoft
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WPF & XAML
Intro to Advanced in an hour….
Smart Client Technology Roadmap
Demos
New Mexico .NET User Group
Web vs. WPF – NY Times Reader
What the hell is XAML?
• Separates the front-end from the back-end
• Simple declarative programming language suitable
for constructing and initializing .NET Objects.
• Usually the most concise way to represent user
interfaces (or other hierarchies of objects)
• Doesn’t need a compile to render
• The language that almost all WPF related tools
emit
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Gratuitous XAML Demos
WPF – how does it work?
• Built on Top of Direct 3D
• Converted to 3D triangles, textures and other
Direct3D objects & then rendered by
hardware
• Benefits of hardware acceleration & perf due
to work being off-loaded to GPUs (unlike GDI
based systems)
• Ensures the maximum benefit of new
hardware and drivers
• Software rendering pipeline as fallback
Why WPF?
• The GDI & USER subsystems were
introduced in Windows 1.0 in 1985
• OpenGL – Early 90s
• DirectX – 1995
• Goal: Overcome the limits of GDI+ &
USER with the productivity of Windows
Forms
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Hello World with VS.NET Orcas B2
• Unified approach to UI,
Documents, and Media
• Integration as part of development
and experience
• Integrated, vector-based
composition engine
• Utilizing the power of the PC
throughout the graphics stack
• Declarative programming
• Bringing designers directly into
application development
• Ease of deployment
• Allowing administrators to deploy and
manage applications securely
WPF FAQ
1. Does WPF enable me to do something I couldn’t have done
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No. Unless you factor in time & money…
2. Is DirectX dead?
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No. It is more applicable to advanced 3D developers writing hard-core “twitch”
games.
3. Are Winforms dead?
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No. …but it will not be advanced; the last version was 2.0 in .NET 2005.
WPF / Winforms Bastardization
Windows 98 Supports WinForms
4. Does WPF run better on Vista than on XP?
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3D objects only get anti-aliasing on Windows Vista or Later
Non-rectangular windows only get hardware acceleration on Vista.
Vista has a driver model that helps with resource contention
Best way to deliver superior user
experiences
• Improve usability, productivity, and satisfaction
• Increase developer productivity
• Expand product relevance
Sets new bar for a modern client
platform
• Unified developer platform for applications,
documents, and graphics
• Integrated, vector-based composition engine
• Support for declarative and procedural
programming
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Hello World WPF with Expression Designer and
Expression Blend
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The Scripps Research
Institute
Reminder: Start the TSRIDEMOSVR vpc
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C-ME
A Smart Client Front-end for SharePoint 2007
Tim Huckaby
CEO – InterKnowlogy
Microsoft Regional Director
Microsoft MVP – .NET
Marketing Highlights
• Demoed in the Steve Ballmer Keynote at the Vista / Office 2007
Launch in NY
• Featured as a technical article in .NET Developers Journal
Magazine
• BioIT Alliance
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Accelerate technology solutions within the Life Science Industry
InterKnowlogy is a founding member of the BioIT Alliance.
Video for Microsoft WPC & MGX Launches
Video for Microsoft Vista / Office Launch
MSDN Channel 9 Interview
Highlighted on .NET Rocks! Interview
Highlighted in TechEd Keynote sessions
Demoed at WPC Keynotes
Media Highlights:
The Peter Kuhn Lab
at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
• Research Focus
• Early detection and therapy management of
cancer patients
• Modulation of protein interactions for
therapeutic intervention
• Projects
• Cancer bioengineering partnership
• Structural Proteomics of SARS
The Problem
• Laboratory Environment
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Research teams work in a distributed environment
Manual, paper notebooks and prone to error
Have stove pipe systems which capture data
Status management requires contacting the researcher directly
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Data Recorded on scraps of paper then re-written in lab notebooks
Pasting gel/chromatogram pictures in notebooks
Too many crystal image files to keep track of & too big
Manually linking patient information experimental results
No way to electronically search for images
The Solution
• SharePoint 2007 Collaboration
• Proven collaborative solution with SharePoint 2007
• Data is stored within SPS hierarchy
• Each Cancer / Sars Entity is a site
• Provides a secure searchable infrastructure but…
C-ME
• WPF Smart Client for SharePoint 2007
• Collaborative Client
• 2D & 3D views at a molecular level
• Leverage the collaborate environment of SharePoint
2007
• Provide data in the context of the project not in the
context of it’s storage
• Allow users to drag and drop data into the
context of the project
• Smart client then handles the display & annotations of
the underlying storage
• Allow user’s to add ad-hoc information
C-ME Architecture
• Smart client for rich
visual experience and
ease of finding
information
• XML Web Service
interfaces
• SharePoint 2007 for
storing data, documents
and Metadata
• No custom SQL
structures
Windows Vista
.NET 3.0
WPF Application
Internet
SharePoint 2007
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C-ME – A .NET 3.0 Smart
Client for SharePoint 2007
Tim Huckaby
CEO – InterKnowlogy
Microsoft Regional Director
Microsoft MVP – .NET
Collaborative Molecular Environment
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Diagram
Collaborative
Molecular
Environment
Architecture Diagram
Launches
SharePoint 2007 Server
WPF Smart Client Application
C-ME Windows Application
Custom 3D
Rendering
Library
Custom
Business
Layer
Library
Consumes
Custom
Site
Creation
Web
Services
Entity Site Structure
MOSS
Web
Pages
MOSS Object Model
WPF
.NET Framework 3.0
MOSS
Web
Services
MOSS Sites/Content Database
Site/Content Structure
Automatically
Generate Team Sites
(root) Research Site
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Document Library
(.pdb files, etc.)
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Document Library
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For more information, please contact Tim Huckaby at [email protected].
How the 3d WPF Works…
Contains
Artifact Control
Inherits
Artifact Viewer
PDB Viewer
Contains
Contains
Atom
Residue
Control
Contains
Molecule
Contains
Image Viewer
Structure
Control
Contains
Residue
3D with WPF
Check out the
method level
support for Rotation
This is why you
should have paid
attention in high
school calculus..
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Collective Molecular Environment
The Future: 3D Collaborator
Opens AutoCAD *.dwg Files Natively
Existing Prototype
• Technologies used
• Rendering
• Autodesk DWF Toolkit (C++ library)
• Custom DWF C++/CLI (Managed) wrapper
• C# WPF 3D rendering
• User interface
• Built using WPF
• XAML skin
Silverlight
• Interactive experiences for devices, PC & Mac platforms
• Strict subset of Windows Presentation Foundation
• Lightweight download
• Programming model uses XAML + JScript
• Access to all WPF tooling
WPF-based Tools
<XAML>
<Button Width="100px"> OK
<Button.Background>
LightBlue
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</Button>
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Where to go next
• Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF)
• by Adam Nathan, Daniel Lehenbauer
• Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• by Chris Anderson
Tim Huckaby, InterKnowlogy
• More info on InterKnowlogy:
• www.InterKnowlogy.com
• Contact me: Tim Huckaby
• E-mail: [email protected]
or [email protected]
• Phone: 760-930-0075 x201
• Blog: http://blogs.InterKnowlogy.com/TimHuckaby
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Microsoft® Regional Director – Southern California
Microsoft® .NET Partner Advisory Council Founder / Member
Microsoft® MVP - .NET
Microsoft® Prescriptive Architecture Group Advisory Council
Microsoft Office® Developer Advisory Council
Microsoft® MSF advisory board member
INETA Speaker – International .NET Users Group Association
Windows and .NET Magazine Advisory Board Member
.NET Developers Journal Magazine Advisory Board Member
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