WPF – A Pragmatic Introduction

COURSE NO: 8010
DURATION: 3 DAYS
PRICE: $1,995.00

What it's about

Windows Presentation Foundation is a challenge to learn. This class, created by an experienced WPF developer and author of a forthcoming WPF book, is designed to reduce that challenge. The purpose of the class is to build a conceptual skeleton of WPF. This allows attendees to understand what the major pieces of WPF can do and how they fit together. Given a coherent foundation in WPF concepts, students should then become productive in WPF more quickly. This course is not designed to assist in preparation for WPF certification. It is designed to teach professional developers how to use WPF to create interactive and leading-edge user interfaces in their real-world applications, using the advanced capabilities of WPF to make their applications more compelling and productive.

What you will learn

Develop line-of-business applications using Windows Presentation Foundation with Visual Studio 2008
Use Databinding, Data Templates and Control Templates to provide an unprecedented level of flexibility for visualizing and working with data
Cleanly separate functionality and resources with effective use of XAML
Take the full power of WPF to the web with XAML Browser Applications (XBAP)
Build more effective user interfaces by applying animations, transforms and other capabilities of WPF not present in earlier versions of .NET

Course outline

Unit 1: Getting Started with WPF

XAML Overview
Visual Designers
WFP Application Model
Element Set
Layout System
Brushes and Colours

Unit 2: Working with Data

Data Binding
Advanced Data Binding
Resources
List-Oriented Controls

Unit 3: Advanced User Interface

Basic Animation
Styles and Triggers
Transforms
Control Templates
Using Media
3D

Unit 4: Additional Topics

3D
Simple Document Handling
XAML Browser Applications (XBAP)
Using Ink
Interop with Windows Forms
WPF Internals

Who should attend

This course is intended for developers and who are planning to embark on internal or external smart client application development on the Windows platform using Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. Experience programming in a modern object-oriented language is assumed. Experience programming with C# or VB.NET is highly recommended.

Materials

The class materials include a slide notebooks, step-by-step exercises (which may be done outside of class), and code for samples demonstrated during the course.

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Instructors

Bruce Johnson is a partner with ObjectSharp and currently leads the UX practice area. As an MVP, Bruce has also given over 200 presentations at user conferences and is co-author of The ASP 3.0 Code Maintenance handbook (Wrox Press).

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My overall impression of ObjectSharp training is very positive. I thought the instructor was very professional and the course was well organized. I would definitely be interested in taking further training seminars through them.

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