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Building User Interfaces in .NET with Windows Presentation Foundation

Ivan Towlson Mindscape. Building User Interfaces in .NET with Windows Presentation Foundation. Agenda. User interface technologies in .NET WPF tiki tour Practicalities. User Interface Options in .NET. Windows Forms ASP.NET GDI+ Rich documents (HTML, Adobe Reader) Media

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Building User Interfaces in .NET with Windows Presentation Foundation

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  1. Ivan Towlson Mindscape Building User Interfaces in .NET with Windows Presentation Foundation

  2. Agenda • User interface technologies in .NET • WPF tiki tour • Practicalities

  3. User Interface Options in .NET • Windows Forms • ASP.NET • GDI+ • Rich documents (HTML, Adobe Reader) • Media • Windows Presentation Foundation • Silverlight

  4. What is WPF? • 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

  5. Tiki Tour of WPF • XAML • Layout • Controls • Commands and events • Styles and templates • Data binding • Animation • Navigation

  6. Layout • The death of absolute positioning • Panels and documents • What are X, Dock and Row properties of?

  7. Controls and Visuals • Content models • Graphics • Transforms and animation

  8. Styles and Templates • Control = Behaviour + Rendering • Rendering = Visual Tree + Style • Custom controls vs. control templates

  9. Data Binding • Binding to a data object • Binding to a collection • Binding to other controls • The awesome power of a fully operational data template

  10. Events and Commands • Routed events and the tunnel/bubble model • Built-in commands • Custom commands

  11. Application Models • Window applications • Navigation applications • Navigation, XBAP and the browser • Structured navigation

  12. With great power...

  13. Practicalities • Interoperability and migration • Design issues – best practices, how do we structure WPF programs, etc. • Tools • Is WPF right for my project?

  14. Migration • Adding WPF UI to a WinForms/Win32 application • Reusing WinForms/Win32 UI in a WPF application

  15. Tools • Visual Studio 2005 via add-in • Visual Studio 2008 • Expression Blend • ZAM 3D and other third-party tools

  16. Should I Use WPF? • 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

  17. Thanks! • Sells & Griffiths, “Programming WPF” 2e • Petzold, “Applications = Code + Markup” • Nathan, “WPF Unleashed” • Anderson, “Essential WPF” ivan@mindscape.co.nz http://www.mindscape.co.nz ivan@hestia.cc http://hestia.typepad.com/flatlander

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