Ian Griffiths Principle Interact Software Ltd. Brian A. Randell Senior Consultant MCW Technologies DEV302

Agenda WPF Today and Tomorrow Model-View-ViewModel WPF and Windows 7 Deploying WPF Applications

WPF is Evolving Richer, visual Xaml designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 New built-in controls in WPF 4 Additional controls on being delivered today on CodePlex for WPF 3.x

DataGrid

Path of least resistance Where does view-specific state go? Where does behaviour live? What about long-term maintainability? View (Xaml + codebehind) View (Xaml + codebehind) EDM

Model View-Model-ViewModel EDM View (Xaml + codebehind) View (Xaml + codebehind) ViewModel and/or Domain Model Properties Command handling Properties Command handling

ViewModel

WPF Ribbon Provides Office 2007 Ribbon features Available via CodePlex Requires accepting Microsoft Ribbon License Agreement Currently not included in Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Current drop of the Ribbon works in both.NET 3.5 SP1 projects and.NET 4.0 Beta 2 projects

Ribbon

Ribbon issues The current Ribbon has not been updated since late 2008 Scott Guthrie comments “A new WPF Ribbon Control will be available for download shortly after the release of WPF 4.” wpf-4-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx Current Ribbon has design issues See CodePlex site for more details

Ribbon and ViewModel

Styling Visual Studio 2010 now understands: Resources Styles Basic visual property support improved Themes available on CodePlex DataGrid currently not supported Ribbon currently uses its own theme model

Styling

Windows 7 Support WPF 4 has new features to help your WPF applications “light up” on Windows 7 Multitouch Taskbar Integration Jump Lists Progress Indicator Notification Overlay Thumb Buttons

Windows 7 Features

Deployment New.NET Framework 4 Client Profile Down to 30 MB Richer platform support in contrast to 3.5 version New configuration tools Full Trust XBAP Deployment

Deployment

Summary WPF continues to evolve WPF 4 provides more rich controls making it easier to build LOB applications Get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and try things out for yourself

Links Brian’s blog Ian’s blog

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