Ivan Towlson Mindscape

 User interface technologies in .NET

 WPF tiki tour  Practicalities

 Windows Forms  ASP.NET

 GDI+  Rich documents (HTML, Adobe Reader)  Media  Windows Presentation Foundation  Silverlight

 Umbrella framework for getting input from, or getting output to, users  Unifies forms, graphics (2D and 3D), documents and media  Take advantage of graphics cards even in normal applications  First-class support for markup

        XAML Layout Controls Commands and events Styles and templates Data binding Animation Navigation

 The death of absolute positioning  Panels and documents  What are X, Dock and Row properties of?

 Content models  Graphics  Transforms and animation

 Control = Behaviour + Rendering  Rendering = Visual Tree + Style  Custom controls vs. control templates

 Binding to a data object  Binding to a collection  Binding to other controls  The awesome power of a fully operational data template

 Routed events and the tunnel/bubble model  Built-in commands  Custom commands

 Window applications  Navigation applications  Navigation, XBAP and the browser  Structured navigation

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 Interoperability and migration  Design issues – best practices, how do we structure WPF programs, etc.

 Tools  Is WPF right for my project?

 Adding WPF UI to a WinForms/Win32 application  Reusing WinForms/Win32 UI in a WPF application

 Visual Studio 2005 via add-in  Visual Studio 2008  Expression Blend  ZAM 3D and other third-party tools

 Development considerations: documentation, tools, third-party / community support  Project management considerations: availability of developers, skill levels required  Deployment considerations: OS, rollout, perf  WPF has a huge payoff in terms of productivity and especially in making it simple to step up from “GUI green screens” to visualisation

 Sells & Griffiths, “Programming WPF” 2e  Petzold, “Applications = Code + Markup”  Nathan, “WPF Unleashed”  Anderson, “Essential WPF” [email protected]

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