VWP03: Building Data Visualization Applications with WPF & Silverlight Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP

Abstract: This session highlights many of the ways that the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) can be leveraged in applications built with Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO). Visual Studio 2008 introduced an array of new features aimed at a wide range of Office solution types. With Visual Studio 2008, you can build solutions that incorporate the native capabilities of the Office client applications (like Outlook) combined with the sophisticated UI capabilities of WPF that's connected to remote data and services via WCF and use the RAD features of LINQ to manipulate that data. These new technologies provide opportunities for building powerful solutions with functionality that was previously difficult or impossible to achieve. Now that Microsoft Office has evolved into a true development platform, solutions based on Office are becoming increasingly sophisticated, less document-focused, and more loosely coupled. This session shows you how easy it is to build robust solutions that leverage the latest technologies. WPF provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences with Office client applications that incorporate UI, media, and documents. WCF contains a support framework and a design-time toolset for building service-oriented solutions that connect rich Office clients with powerful server-side functionality and remote data access. Visual Studio 2008 provides a simple GUI wizard that lets you consume WCF services without having to worry about service metadata, protocols, or XML configuration.

About Tim… InterKnowlogy ( Tim Huckaby, Founder/Chairman ● Custom Application Development / Consulting / Software & Systems Engineering Firm headquartered in Carlsbad, CA ● Design, Architect, Build and Deploy Enterprise Class Applications ● Industry Experts: Most of the employees are published, MVPs, RD, Speakers, etc. Microsoft.NET Application development since 2000 Microsoft.NET Rich Client Pioneers / Industry Leaders Microsoft Touch Application Development Leaders (Surface / Windows 7 / Silverlight 3) Information Worker Solutions (VSTO & SharePoint) Integration / Messaging, B2B / B2C, Wireless / Mobility Leading Edge: Surface, WPF, Silverlight, Win7 touch, SharePoint, VSTO Cutting Edge Solutions on emerging Microsoft technologies Largest Client: Microsoft Actus Software ( Tim Huckaby, Founder/CEO Software Product Company, Coming soon…

A little bit about me and why I am here…

Data Visualization: WPF & XAML…and Silverlight…and Surface..and “the phone” Session Objective: To get you excited by showing you “what you can do” so that you start doing it. Why you need Rich Client Applications Rich Client Technology Roadmap Session Objectives And Agenda Demos, demos, demos!...

About the Computer I am Using Today… Acer Aspire 1420P Give away “free” to all attendees at the PDC One year old… Price in October-2009: $420 Price in November-2009: $350

WPF 3D: The Scripps Research Institute VitruView AutoCad – dwf Viewer Tim Huckaby CEO, InterKnowlogy Microsoft RD & MVP

Surface WPF 3D: The Scripps Research Institute VitruView Tim Huckaby CEO, InterKnowlogy Microsoft RD & MVP

History of Surface The first prototype is presented to Bill Gates A dedicated group is formed, and more than 85 prototypes are developed Microsoft Surface is unveiled to the world The concept of an interactive table is born The look and feel of Surface is finalized

Separates the front-end from the back-end Simple declarative programming language suitable for constructing and initializing.NET Objects Usually the most concise way to represent user interfaces (or other hierarchies of objects) Doesn’t need a compile to renderThe language that almost all Silverlight related tools emit What the heck is XAML?

Sample XAML Runs in a WPF Application: Runs in the Browser:

Complex XAML

WPF, Silverlight and Declarative Programming XAML replaces code Attributes control Layout and Style Event handlers wired-up in XAML Declarative Data Binding

WPF (Windows XP and above) Silverlight (Cross Platform for the Browser) Surface WPF 4.0 Touch (Windows 7) Windows® Phone 7 Series The Big 5 “XAML-based” Technologies

WPF, Surface, & Silverlight Library of Congress Win7 WPF multi-touch Silverlight Tim Huckaby Founder, InterKnowlogy Microsoft RD & MVP

Lightweight WPF runtime OK LightBlue XAML-based Tools

Silverlight 43Things.com InterKnowlogy Wish 43 WP7 Wish43 Tim Huckaby Founder, InterKnowlogy Microsoft RD & MVP

Eclipsys Corporation Silverlight 3 - Enterprise Visibility Real-time Hospital Operations Tim Huckaby CEO, InterKnowlogy Microsoft RD & MVP Silverlight

Eclipsys Maestro Hospital Management

WPF/SL – how does it work? Built on Top of Direct 3D ● Converted to 3D triangles, textures and other Direct3D objects & then rendered by hardware ● Benefits of hardware acceleration & performance due to work being off-loaded to GPUs (unlike GDI based systems) ● Ensures the maximum benefit of new hardware and drivers ● Software rendering pipeline as fallback

EMN8 & REZN8

WPF Emn8 from our Marketing VP Madeline Pantalone: “It's okay for you to use application for demonstration as long as you are sure to preface it with the phrase: "This is test data only. Products you see may have been created for testing purposes only."

Why WPF and Silverlight? The GDI & USER subsystems were introduced in Windows 1.0 in 1985 OpenGL – Early 90s DirectX – 1995 Goal: Overcome the limits of GDI+ & USER with the productivity of.NET

Audience Participation Time 1.Does WPF & SL enable me to do something I couldn’t have done before? ● No. Unless you factor in time & money… ● And would like to do more with less… 2.Is DirectX dead? ● No. It is more applicable to advanced 3D developers writing hard-core “twitch” games. 3.Are Winforms dead? ● No. …but it will not be advanced; the last version was 2.0 in.NET ● WPF / Winforms Integration is simple ● Windows 98 Supports WinForms 4.Does WPF run better on Vista & Win 7 than on XP? ● Yes. ● 3D objects only get anti-aliasing on Windows Vista or Later ● Non-rectangular windows only get hardware acceleration on Vista. ● Vista has a driver model that helps with resource contention 5.Does Silverlight trump all this other WPF Stuff? ● One would think so with all the marketing dollars that are being thrown at it…. ● But, in Reality the answer is “No” and it makes solution architecture more difficult than ever. 6.Does HTML5 trump everything XAML? ● Doubtful…but, there is wild speculation right now.. ● The Next 5 years are going to be “interesting”…

WPF: Where to go Next Free Resources WindowsClient.net - this is the official Microsoft community portal for WPF development, and is chock full of great resources such as the... Learn WPF page - this page links to podcasts, labs, and the very popular "how do I?" videosLearn WPF page MIX University's WPF Bootcamp - this is a full 3- day video training course on WPF, in which expert instructors guide you from the surface into the depths of the technology stackMIX University's WPF Bootcamp

Where to go next Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) by Adam Nathan, Daniel LehenbauerAdam NathanDaniel Lehenbauer Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Chris AndersonChris Anderson

Where to go next The InterKnowlogy WPF & Silverlight Reference Applications

Silverlight: Where to go Next Free Resources - this is the official Microsoft community portal for Silverlight development - This is the official product site – Free Windows Phone Developer Tools (1 download)

Where to go Next – Silverlight Books Silverlight 4 Unleashed by Laurent BugnionLaurent Bugnion (September 6, 2010) Essential Silverlight 3 by Ashraf MichailAshraf Michail Silverlight In Action by Chad Campbell and John Stockton Silverlight 4 Unleashed by Laurent BugnionLaurent Bugnion (September 6, 2010) Essential Silverlight 3 by Ashraf MichailAshraf Michail Silverlight In Action by Chad Campbell and John Stockton

Where to go…soon… Windows Presentation Foundation A Scenario-Based Approach by Billy Hollis “Early April…I hope…” B. Hollis, 12/7/07 “October…” B. Hollis, 6/3/08 “It’s not going to be done in April.” B. Hollis, 2/24/09 “I took a.NET 4.0 dependency. Projected date now Jan 2010, because it can’t come out until VS2010 is released.” B. Hollis, 4/29/09

Windows Client Guidance Microsoft Platform Solution Architecture for the Application Developer by Tim Huckaby The “anchor document” to a ton of Rich Client Guidance

Summary We are at the Edge of the Rich Client revolution HTML is sufficient for Web Sites, but insufficient for Data Visualization software applications The Tools, Plumbing and platforms for Rich Client, touch based computing are powerful and available Within a short time frame computers with touch capability will be the norm. The.NET stack for Rich Client & Touch Based Software (Surface, WPF & Silverlight) is elegant and powerful The Concepts of NUI & Data Visualization change the way we design and build software

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More info on InterKnowlogy: ● ● Silverlight.InterKnowlogy.com More info on Actus Software: ● Coming soon…. About Tim Huckaby… ● Founder/Chairman, InterKnowlogy ● Founder/CEO, Actus Software ● Microsoft® Regional Director – Southern California ● Microsoft®.NET Partner Advisory Council Founder / Member ● Microsoft® MVP -.NET ● INETA Speaker – International.NET Users Group Association ● Board Member: Association for Competitive Technology ● Board Member: Dev Connections ● Author / Speaker Tim Huckaby Contact me: Tim Huckaby Phone: Office: Mobile: Blog : FaceBook: LinkedIn: