Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Fundamentals

Course Overview

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 abilities 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 built 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 WPF Fundamentals course will introduce practicing .NET developers to the new programming models and UI features introduced by WPF, with practical labs to reinforce the concepts.

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Related Courses

• Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight Introduction: Hands-On

Audience

The WPF Fundamentals course is designed for developers with experience in .NET who are interested in learning how to develop applications using the Windows Presentation Foundation.

Course Outline

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

Data

• Data binding and data contexts
• Data templates
• Master/details
• Data grid
• 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

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

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

Mixing WPF with Windows Forms and Win32

• Windows Forms interop
• Win32 interop
• Mixing HTML and WPF