Windows Presentation Foundation

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WPF Presentation

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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
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Agenda

• What is Windows Presentation Foundation
• What can it do
• Why Use WPF
• How can I make it do that
• Advantages of WPF
• Disadvantages of WPF.

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• Overview

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• Overview

• Separation of Appearance and Behavior
• Rich composition
• Highly customizable
• Resolution independence

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• Architecture of WPF

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• Architecture of WPF

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• Main Features of WPF

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• Main Features of WPF

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• Whats Windows Presentation Foundation?

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• Whats Windows Presentation Foundation?

• The Windows Presentation Foundation is
  Microsofts next generation UI framework to
  create applications with a rich user experience.
  It is part of the .NET framework 3.0 and higher.
• WPF combines application UIs, 2D graphics, 3D
  graphics, documents and multimedia into one
  single framework.
• Its vector based rendering engine uses hardware
  acceleration of modern graphic cards. This makes
  the UI faster, scalable and resolution
  independent.

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• Whats Windows Presentation Foundation?

• Next generation presentation subsystem for
  Windows
• Unified programming model
• Harness the power of new graphics hardware
• Provide designers direct input into project
  development
• Enables developers and designers to create
  visually stunning user interfaces

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WPF Using the Hardware

• Vector-based composition engine uses the PCs
  graphics power
• Quality is preserved with scale
• CPU freed from graphics work
• Gain capability from graphics card advances

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• What type of Applications can be built

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• What type of Applications can be built

• WPF intended to replace both webforms and windows
  forms apps can be built to run in a browser or
  a standalone window
• Windows forms and WPF pages/windows can co-exist
  in the same application
• One WPF page/window can have both types of
  controls on it
• A new type of web application called XAML Browser
  Application XBAP (formerly Web Browser
  Application WBA)

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What do the applications look like

• WPF intended to replace both webforms and windows
  forms apps can be built to run in a browser or
  a standalone window
• Windows forms and WPF pages/windows can co-exist
  in the same application
• One WPF page/window can have both types of
  controls on it
• A new type of web application called XAML Browser
  Application XBAP (formerly Web Browser
  Application WBA)

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• Why use WPF?

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• Why use WPF?

• WPF is an especially great platform to use if
  your applications involve various media types.If
  you need to incorporate video, or documents, 3D
  content and animated transitions between a
  sequence of images, or a combination of any of
  the above. 
• WPF is also great if you need to create a skinned
  user interface, or if you need to bind to XML
  data, or dynamically load portions of a user
  interface from a Web service, or want to create a
  desktop application with a Web-like navigation
  style.

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• How can I make it to do that?

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• How can I make it do that?

XAML Extensible Application Markup Language

• Easily toolable, declarative markup
• Code and content are separate
• Can be rendered in the browser / standalone
  application

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• Advantages of WPF?

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• Advantages of WPF?

• The ability to make very rich UIs relatively
  easily.
• Easier animation and special effects
• Inherent scalability 
• WPF builds on DirectX rather than WinAPI,
  harnessing the power of the client computer's
  graphics system thus giving much greater graphic
  rendering power
• WPF uses a vector graphics system which means UIs
  are completely re-sizeable without loss of
  quality
• WPF supports flow document model that gives a
  'desktop publishing' quality of layout 
• Supports rich data visualisation

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• Disadvantages of WPF?

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• Disadvantages of WPF?

• WPF will not run on windows 2000 or lower.
• WPF's in-box control suite is far more limited
  than that of WinForms.

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• WPF Summary

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• WPF Summary

Deliver Innovative User Experiences
Increase Developer-Designer Productivity
Achieve Flexible Application Deployment
Leverage Existing Code Base Skill Set
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WPF Resources

• WPF _at_ Windows Vista Developer Centerhttp//msdn.m
  icrosoft.com/windowsvista/building/presentation/
• WPF/.NET Framework 3.0 Community Site
• Microsoft Expressionwww.microsoft.com/expression

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• Thank You

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