WPF Fundamentals

Course description:

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is Microsoft’s next-generation presentation platform. WPF is built into Windows Vista and also runs on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

WPF allows rich client applications to take full advantage of the graphical capabilities of a modern PC. Its powerful and flexible programming model integrates support for flexible layout, high-quality text, resolution-independent graphics, animation, video and 3D. While it is designed to exploit the full capabilities of today’s high-performance graphics cards, it offers high-level abstractions that offer great power to the developer for less development effort than ever before. This course will introduce practicing .NET developers to the new programming models and UI features introduced by WPF, with practical hands-on labs to reinforce the concepts.

 

Who Should Attend

Developers with experience in .NET who are interested in learning how to develop applications using the Windows Presentation Foundation.

 

 

Course outline:

Day 1   Introduction to WPF - Why WPF? (Historical technical context) - WPF, WinFX, .NET, and Windows. What is WPF and how does it relate to Microsoft’s current technology offerings? - XAML, Expression Blend, and Visual Studio 2008 - Customization of UI visuals - Presenting data   Controls and Layout - Built-in controls, menus - Layout - Pages, frames, windows, and navigation - Eventing and commanding   Graphics - Resolution independence, transformability - WPF and modern graphics cards - Drawing primitives - Graphics object model - Integration - Imaging and video Day 2   Data - Data binding and data contexts - Data templates - Hierarchical binding   Core Types - DependencyObject and Dependency Properties - Visual - FrameworkElement - FrameworkContentElement - Freezable   Templates - Customization continuum: properties, templates, custom control - ‘Lookless’ controls - ControlTemplate and TemplateBinding - Triggers - The implied contract between a control and its template - ContentControl idiom - List control idiom Day 3   Resources - WPF object resource hierarchy - Binary resource support - Internationalization   Reusable UI - Resource-based reuse - Template-based reuse - Reusing Xaml with codebehind - Writing custom lookless controls   Text - Ubiquitous full-featured text support - Flow layout - Integration with other UI elements - Pagination Day 4   Printing - Printing in WPF - XPS documents   Styles - Styles and properties - Styles and resources - Triggers   Connecting WPF Applications to Services - Asynchronous invocation and the WPF threading model - Data binding and services   Interop: Mixing WPF with Windows Forms and Win32 - Windows Forms interop - Win32 interop - Mixing HTML and WPF