Transcript Spring 2009 Connections Conference Template

VWP03: Building Data Visualization
Applications with WPF & Silverlight
Tim Huckaby
Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy
Founder / CEO, Actus Software
Microsoft RD & MVP
About Tim…
InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com)
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Tim Huckaby, Founder/Chairman ([email protected])
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Custom Application Development / Consulting / Software & Systems Engineering Firm headquartered in
Carlsbad, CA
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Design, Architect, Build and Deploy Enterprise Class Applications
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Industry Experts:
•Most of the employees are published, MVPs, RD, Speakers, etc.
•Microsoft .NET Application development since 2000
•Microsoft .NET Rich Client Pioneers / Industry Leaders
•Microsoft Touch Application Development Leaders (Surface / Windows 7 / Silverlight 3)
•Information Worker Solutions (VSTO & SharePoint)
•Integration / Messaging, B2B / B2C, Wireless / Mobility
•Leading Edge: Surface, WPF, Silverlight, Win7 touch, SharePoint, VSTO
•Cutting Edge Solutions on emerging Microsoft technologies
•Largest Client: Microsoft
Actus Software (www.Actus-Software.com)
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Tim Huckaby, Founder/CEO ([email protected])
•Software Product Company, Coming soon…
A little bit about me and why I am here…
Session Objectives And Agenda
Data Visualization: WPF & XAML…and Silverlight…and Surface..and “the
phone”
Session Objective: To get you excited by showing you “what you can do” so
that you start doing it.
Why you need Rich Client Applications
Rich Client Technology Roadmap
Demos, demos, demos!...
About the Computer I am Using Today…
• Acer Aspire 1420P
• Give away “free” to all attendees at the
PDC
• One year old…
• Price in October-2009: $420
• Price in November-2009: $350
WPF 3D:
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Tim Huckaby
CEO, InterKnowlogy
Microsoft RD & MVP
Surface WPF 3D:
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Tim Huckaby
CEO, InterKnowlogy
Microsoft RD & MVP
History of Surface
The concept of an
interactive table is born
A dedicated group is formed,
and more than 85
prototypes are developed
The first
prototype is
presented to
Bill Gates
The look and feel of
Surface is finalized
Microsoft Surface is unveiled
to the world
What the heck 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 Silverlight related tools emit
Sample XAML
Runs in a WPF Application:
Runs in the Browser:
Complex XAML
WPF, Silverlight and Declarative
Programming
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XAML replaces code
Attributes control Layout and Style
Event handlers wired-up in XAML
Declarative Data Binding
The Big 5 “XAML-based”
Technologies
WPF (Windows XP and above)
Silverlight (Cross Platform for the Browser)
Surface
WPF 4.0 Touch (Windows 7)
Windows® Phone 7 Series
WPF, Surface, &
Silverlight
Library of Congress
Win7 WPF multi-touch
Silverlight
Tim Huckaby
Founder, InterKnowlogy
Microsoft RD & MVP
Lightweight WPF runtime
• Interactive experiences for devices,
PC, & Mac platforms (and others…)
• Subset of Windows Presentation Foundation
• Lightweight download (4.2mb executable – runtime is larger)
• Programming model uses XAML + .NET
• Access to XAML tooling
XAML-based Tools
<XAML>
<Button Width="100px"> OK
<Button.Background>
LightBlue
</Button.Background>
</Button>
</XAML>
Silverlight
43Things.com
InterKnowlogy Wish 43
WP7 Wish43
Tim Huckaby
Founder, InterKnowlogy
Microsoft RD & MVP
Silverlight
Eclipsys Corporation
Silverlight 3 - Enterprise Visibility
Real-time Hospital Operations
Tim Huckaby
CEO, InterKnowlogy
Microsoft RD & MVP
Eclipsys Maestro
Hospital Management
Eclipsys Maestro
Hospital Management
WPF/SL – how does it work?
• Built on Top of Direct 3D
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Converted to 3D triangles, textures and other Direct3D
objects & then rendered by hardware
Benefits of hardware acceleration & performance 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
EMN8 & REZN8
WPF
Emn8
from our Marketing VP Madeline Pantalone:
“It's okay for you to use application for
demonstration as long as you are sure to preface it
with the phrase: "This is test data only. Products
you see may have been created for testing purposes
only."
Why WPF and Silverlight?
• 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 .NET
Audience Participation Time
Does WPF & SL enable me to do something I couldn’t have
done before?
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No. Unless you factor in time & money…
And would like to do more with less…
Is DirectX dead?
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No. It is more applicable to advanced 3D developers writing hard-core “twitch” games.
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 Integration is simple
Windows 98 Supports WinForms
Does WPF run better on Vista & Win 7 than on XP?
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Yes.
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
Does Silverlight trump all this other WPF Stuff?
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One would think so with all the marketing dollars that are being thrown at it….
But, in Reality the answer is “No” and it makes solution architecture more difficult than ever.
Does HTML5 trump everything XAML?
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Doubtful…but, there is wild speculation right now..
The Next 5 years are going to be “interesting”…
WPF: Where to go Next
Free Resources
• WindowsClient.net - this is the official Microsoft
community portal for WPF development, and is
chock full of great resources such as the...
• Learn WPF page - this page links to podcasts,
labs, and the very popular "how do I?" videos
• MIX University's WPF Bootcamp - this is a full 3day video training course on WPF, in which
expert instructors guide you from the surface into
the depths of the technology stack
Where to go next
• Windows Presentation Foundation
Unleashed (WPF)
• by Adam Nathan, Daniel Lehenbauer
• Essential Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF)
• by Chris Anderson
The InterKnowlogy WPF & Silverlight Reference Applications
Where to go next
Silverlight: Where to go Next
Free Resources
• http://Silverlight.net - this is the official Microsoft
community portal for Silverlight development
• http://www.Microsoft.com/Silverlight - This is the
official product site
• http://developer.windowsphone.com – Free
Windows Phone Developer Tools (1 download)
Where to go Next – Silverlight Books
Silverlight 4 Unleashed
by Laurent Bugnion
(September 6, 2010)
Essential Silverlight 3
by Ashraf Michail
Silverlight In Action
by Chad Campbell and
John Stockton
Summary
• We are at the Edge of the Rich Client revolution
• HTML is sufficient for Web Sites, but insufficient for Data
Visualization software applications
• The Tools, Plumbing and platforms for Rich Client, touch
based computing are powerful and available
• Within a short time frame computers with touch capability
will be the norm.
• The .NET stack for Rich Client & Touch Based Software
(Surface, WPF & Silverlight) is elegant and powerful
• The Concepts of NUI & Data Visualization change the
way we design and build software
Your Feedback is Important
Please fill out a session evaluation form
drop it off at the conference registration
desk.
Thank you!
Tim Huckaby
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More info on InterKnowlogy:
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More info on Actus Software:
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www.InterKnowlogy.com
Silverlight.InterKnowlogy.com
Coming soon….
About Tim Huckaby…
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Founder/Chairman, InterKnowlogy
Founder/CEO, Actus Software
Microsoft® Regional Director – Southern California
Microsoft® .NET Partner Advisory Council Founder /
Member
Microsoft® MVP - .NET
INETA Speaker – International .NET Users Group
Association
Board Member: Association for Competitive
Technology
Board Member: Dev Connections
Author / Speaker
Contact me: Tim Huckaby
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone:
Office: 760-444-8640
Mobile: 619 990 9200
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