The Hitchhikers Guide to Avalon

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The HitchhikersGuide to Avalon

• An Introduction tothe Windows Presentation
  Foundation (WPF)

Ken LeFebvre Bennett Adelson klefebvre_at_bennettadel
son.com kenneth_at_lefebvre.us http//blogs.lefebvre.
us/kenneth/
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Agenda

• Current State of Affairs
• Overview of the WindowsPresentation Foundation
• Demonstrations

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Current State of Affairs

• Graphics hardware is underutilized
• Compare Halo with
• User Interface technologies disorganized
• Windows Forms API
• DirectX API
• TrueType
• Speech

Microsoft Word
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Windows Presentation Foundation

• Unify all presentation technologies
• 2-D and 3-D drawing
• Document printing and rendering
• Speech synthesis and recognition
• Audio and Video services
• Take advantage of hardware
• Vector-based
• Resolution-independent
• Hardware acceleration
• New Declarative Programming Model

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Windows Integration

• Built into Windows Vista
• (not installed, by default, in Beta 1)
• Add-on for older versions of Windows
• Windows XP
• Windows Server 2003

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New Features

• Declarative Model XAML
• Express applications
• Metro document and print technology
• Multimedia
• Speech synthesis and recognition
• New controls

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Additional Resources

• http//www.msdn.com/longhorn
• http//winfx.msdn.microsoft.com
• http//www.longhornblogs.com
• nntp//microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.av
  alon
• http//www.xamlshare.com
• http//www.xaml.net
• http//blogs.lefebvre.us/kenneth

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Avalon Blogs

• Adam Nathans Win32 to WinFX Bloghttp//blogs.msd
  n.com/adam_nathan
• Designers Love .NET (Nathan Dunlap)http//www.des
  ignerslove.net/
• Not Statichttp//www.notstatic.com
• Simple Geek (Chris Anderson)http//www.simplegeek
  .com/
• Fortes.com gt Work (Filipe Fortes)http//fortes.co
  m/work
• Greg Schechters Bloghttp//blogs.msdn.com/greg_s
  chechter/
• Tales from the Smart Client (John
  Gossman)http//blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/

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Avalon Blogs

• Tales from the Smart Client (John
  Gossman)http//blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/
• IRhetoric (Karsten Januszewski)http//blogs.msdn.
  com/karstenj/
• Lauren Lavoiehttp//laurenlavoie.com/
• Nick on Windows Presentation Foundation (Nick
  Kramer)http//blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/
• Okoboji (Kevin Moore)http//blogs.msdn.com/okoboj
  i/
• Blog xmlns"http//schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/xam
  l/2005" / (Rob Relyea)http//www.longhornblogs.co
  m/rrelyea/
• Tim Sneathhttp//blogs.msdn.com/tims/
• Ryan Dawson on Longhornhttp//www.longhornblogs.c
  om/rdawson/