Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation: WPF for VB Developers

Course Overview

The Windows Presentation Foundation for VB Developers training course shows you how WPF really works. It provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice that you need in order to build highquality WPF applications quickly and easily.

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Related Courses

• Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Building Effective Windows Presentation Foundation applications using Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 4
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• Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation: WPF for C# Developers

Prerequisites

Previous Knowledge and experience of developing applications with VB.NET.

Course Outline

Introducing WPF

• The Evolution of Windows Graphics
• WPF: A Higher-Level API
• Resolution Independence
• The Architecture of WPF
• WPF 4

XAML

• Understanding XAML
• XAML Basics
• Properties and Events in XAML
• Using Types from Other Namespaces
• Loading and Compiling XAML
• XAML 2009

Layout

• Understanding Layout in WPF
• Simple Layout with the StackPanel
• The WrapPanel and DockPanel
• The Grid
• Coordinate-Based Layout with the Canvas

Dependency Properties

• Understanding Dependency Properties
• Property Validation

Routed Events

• Understanding Routed Events
• Event Routing
• WPF Events
• Keyboard Input
• Mouse Input
• Multitouch Input

Controls

• The Control Class
• Content Controls
• Specialized Containers
• Headered Content Controls
• Text Controls
• List Controls
• Range-Based Controls
• Date Controls

The Application

• The Application Life Cycle
• Application Tasks
• Assembly Resources
• Localization

Element Binding

• Binding Elements Together
• Binding to Objects That Aren't Elements

Commands

• Understanding Commands
• The WPF Command Model
• Executing Commands
• Advanced Commands

Resources

• Resource Basics
• Resource Dictionaries

Styles and Behaviors

• Style Basics
• Triggers
• Behaviors

Shapes, Brushes, and Transforms

• Understanding Shapes
• Brushes
• Transforms
• Transparency

Geometries and Drawings

• Paths and Geometries
• Drawings

Effects and Visuals

• Visuals
• Effects
• The WriteableBitmap Class
• Animation Basics
• Understanding WPF Animation
• Basic Animation
• Storyboards
• Animation Easing
• Animation Performance

Advanced Animation

• Animation Types Revisited
• Key Frame Animation
• Path-Based Animation
• Frame-Based Animation
• Storyboards in Code

Control Templates

• Understanding Logical Trees and Visual Trees
• Understanding Templates
• Creating Control Templates
• Organizing Template Resources
• Building More Complex Templates
• Visual States
• View Sample

Custom Elements

• Understanding Custom Elements in WPF
• Building a Basic User Control
• Creating a Lookless Control
• Supporting Visual States
• Custom Panels
• Custom-Drawn Elements

Data Binding

• Binding to a Database with Custom Objects
• Binding to a Collection of Objects
• Improving Performance in Large Lists
• Validation
• Data Providers

Formatting Bound Data

• Data Binding Redux
• Data Conversion
• List Controls
• List Styles
• Data Templates
• The ComboBox

Data Views

• The View Object
• Filtering, Sorting, and Grouping

Lists, Grids, and Trees

• The ListView
• The TreeView
• The DataGrid

Windows

• The Window Class
• Window Interaction
• Nonrectangular Windows
• The Aero Glass Effect
• Programming the Windows 7 Taskbar

Pages and Navigation

• Understanding Page-Based Navigation
• Page-Based Interfaces
• The Page History
• The Navigation Service
• XAML Browser Applications
• The WebBrowser Control

Menus, Toolbars, and Ribbons

• Menus
• Toolbars and Status Bars
• Ribbons

Sound and Video

• Playing WAV Audio
• The MediaPlayer
• The MediaElement
• Speech

3-D Drawing

• 3-D Drawing Basics
• Deeper into 3-D
• Interactivity and Animations

Documents

• Understanding Documents
• Flow Documents
• Read-Only Flow Document Containers
• Fixed Documents
• Annotations

Printing

• Basic Printing
• Custom Printing
• Print Settings and Management
• Printing Through XPS

Interacting with Windows Forms

• Assessing Interoperability
• Mixing Windows and Forms
• Creating Windows with Mixed Content
• The Last Word

Multithreading

• Multithreading

• Choosing Between MAF and MEF
• The Add-in Pipeline
• An Application That Uses Add-Ins
• Interacting with the Host
• Visual Add-Ins

ClickOnce Deployment

• Understanding Application Deployment
• A Simple ClickOnce Publication
• Additional ClickOnce Options