WPF Presentation

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Windows Presentation Foundation
(WPF)
 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.
1 Overview
Overview

 Separation of Appearance and Behavior

 Rich composition
 Highly customizable
 Resolution independence
2 Architecture of WPF
Architecture of WPF
3 Main Features of WPF
Main Features of WPF
4 What’s Windows Presentation
Foundation?
 What’s Windows Presentation Foundation?

 The Windows Presentation Foundation is Microsoft’s

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.
 What’s 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
WPF: Using the Hardware

 Vector-based composition engine uses the PC’s graphics

power
 Quality is preserved with scale
 CPU freed from graphics work
 Gain capability from graphics card advances
5 What type of Applications can
be built
 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)
 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)
6 Why use WPF?
 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.
7 How can I make it to do that?
 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

XAML C# VB.NET
<Button Width="100"> OK Button b1 = new Button(); Dim b1 As New Button
<Button.Background> b1.Content = "OK"; b1.Content = "OK"
LightBlue b1.Background = new b1.Background = New _
</Button.Background> SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightBlue); SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightBlue)
</Button> b1.Width = 100; b1.Width = 100
8 Advantages of WPF?
 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’
9 Disadvantages of WPF?
 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.
10 WPF Summary
WPF Summary

Deliver Innovative User Experiences

Increase Developer-Designer Productivity

Achieve Flexible Application Deployment

Leverage Existing Code Base & Skill Set

 WPF Resources

WPF @ Windows Vista Developer Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/presenta
tion/

WPF/.NET Framework 3.0 Community Site

Microsoft Expression
www.microsoft.com/expression
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