Windows Presentation Foundation

1. Windows Presentation Foundation Tim Huckaby CEO, InterKnowlogy Microsoft Regional Director & MVP

2. About… • InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com) • Tim Huckaby, CEO - (TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com) • 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: • 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

3. Agenda • WPF & XAML • Intro to Advanced in an hour…. • Smart Client Technology Roadmap • Demos

4. Web vs. WPF – NY Times Reader

5. 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

6. Gratuitous XAML Demos

7. 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

8. 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

9. Hello World with VS.NET Orcas B2

10. 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 Vision

11. WPF FAQ • Does WPF enable me to do something I couldn’t have done before? • No. Unless you factor in time & money… • Is DirectX dead? • No. It is more applicable to advanced 3D developers writing hard-core “twitch” games. • Are Winforms dead? • No. …but it will not be advanced; the last version was 2.0 in .NET 2005. • WPF / Winforms Bastardization • Windows 98 Supports WinForms • Does WPF run better on Vista than on XP? • 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

12. Windows Presentation Foundation 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

13. Hello World WPF with Expression Designer and Expression Blend

14. The Scripps Research Institute Reminder: Start the TSRIDEMOSVR vpc

16. C-MEA Smart Client Front-end for SharePoint 2007 Tim Huckaby CEO – InterKnowlogy Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft MVP – .NET

17. 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 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:

18. 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

19. The Problem • Laboratory Environment • 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 • Collaboration Issues • 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

20. 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…

21. 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

22. Windows Vista .NET 3.0 WPF Application Internet SharePoint 2007 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

23. C-ME – A .NET 3.0 Smart Client for SharePoint 2007 Tim Huckaby CEO – InterKnowlogy Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft MVP – .NET

24. Collaborative Molecular Environment • Architectural Diagram

25. How the 3d WPF Works…

26. 3D with WPF Check out the method level support for Rotation This is why you should have paid attention in high school calculus..

27. Collective Molecular Environment

28. The Future: 3D Collaborator Opens AutoCAD *.dwg Files Natively

29. 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

30. Introducing “WPF/E”Lightweight WPF runtime 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 Silverlight WPF-based Tools <XAML> <Button Width="100px"> OK <Button.Background> LightBlue </Button.Background> </Button> </XAML>

31. Where to go next • Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) • by Adam Nathan, Daniel Lehenbauer • Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) • by Chris Anderson

32. Tim Huckaby, InterKnowlogy • More info on InterKnowlogy: • www.InterKnowlogy.com • Contact me: Tim Huckaby • E-mail: TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.comor v-TimHu@Microsoft.com • Phone:760-930-0075 x201 • Blog: http://blogs.InterKnowlogy.com/TimHuckaby • About Tim Huckaby • 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 • Author / Speaker