1. 1 Beyond Silverlight with WPF Clients ( WPF : Windows Presentation Foundation ) Mike Taulty Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd Mike.Taulty@microsoft.com http://www.miketaulty.com

2. Client Technologies Browser?Client?

3. Why Build for the Browser? Web is Cross Platform

4. Why Build for the Browser? Deployment Cost

5. Why Build A Client? Client Local Resource Disk CPU(s) Hardware Optimise for the Device Online/Offline Working Richness of Experience User Productivity UI Familiarity Responsiveness S/W Integration Developer Productivity Platform Integration Product Differentiation

6. Why Choose WPF? Very rich UIDeveloper Model ( ~ Silverlight )Mature TechnologyTool Support Expression Blend + VS 2008 3 rd Party Components

7. .NET 3.5 Sp1 WPF Release History 2008.NET 3.5.NET 3.0 Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 2007 Visual Studio 2008.NET 2.0 2005 Visual Studio 2005.NET 1.1 2003 Visual Studio.NET 2003.NET 1.0 2002 Visual Studio.NET 2006

8. WPF – Clients and Clients XAML Browser Application (XBAP) Online OnlySimple DeploymentAutomatic UpdatesTight, “Fixed” Sandbox ClickOnce Application Offline/Online“Flexible” DeploymentUpdating Framework“Flexible” Sandbox Full Client Offline/Online Custom DeploymentRoll Your Own UpdatesNo Sandbox

9. WPF == Silverlight Capabilities++ 2D Vector Graphics RectanglePolygonLinePolylinePathGeometryEllipseTextBrushes MediaWMVWMAMP3Ink LayoutLayoutAnimationAnimationCompositionComposition WMV1WMV2WMV3WMVAWMVC1WMV1WMV2WMV3WMVAWMVC1 WMA7WMA8WMA9WMA7WMA8WMA9

10. WPF == Silverlight Capabilities++ 2D Vector Graphics RectanglePolygonLinePolylinePathGeometryEllipseTextBrushes MediaWMVWMAMP3Ink LayoutLayoutAnimationAnimationCompositionComposition WMV1WMV2WMV3WMVAWMVC1WMV1WMV2WMV3WMVAWMVC1 WMA7WMA8WMA9WMA7WMA8WMA9 Controls Content Controls User Controls StylingTemplated Custom Controls Full 3D Graphics System2D UI on 3D SurfacesDocument & Text SystemWindows Forms & Direct 3D InteropHTML DisplayPrinting SupportSpeech & InkHardware AccelerationBitmap EffectsVisual Brushes Full.NET FrameworkOnline/OfflineDesktop IntegrationUse Local Resourcesetc. WPFWPF ClientClient

11. 11 Additional WPF Capabilities

12. WPF == Silverlight Development++ Silverlight Development Visual Studio 2008 Expression Blend XAML Code Behind Data Binding ResourcesStylesAnimationsLayout WPFWPF VS XAML EditorBlend with Binding + 3DResource DictionariesDynamic StylesLayout Panels + OptionsRicher BindingNavigation ModelCommands & Gesturess

13. 13 WPF Development

14. WPF in.NET Framework V3.5 VS Editor2D/3D IntegrationXBAPs in FireFoxWCF Services in Partial Trust

15. 15 2D and 3D Integration

16. WPF in.NET Framework V3.5 Sp1.NET Client ProfilePerformance ImprovementsDataGrid (incoming)Effects in HardwareDirect 3D Interop

17. 17 DataGrid

18. .NET Client Profile Trimmed.NET Framework 3.5 Sp 1 for Clients Customisable installation process Online bootstrapper ( ~270KB ) Offline installer ( ~ 250MB ) Works with XBAP, ClickOnce, Setup.exe Target has.NET?.NET? Install 3.5 Sp1 RebootReboot Admin Required Yes Install ~28MB Client Profile No Reboot Admin Required Schedule 3.5 Sp1 Install No

19. .NET Client Profile Subset of.NET Framework V3.5 Sp1 Not technologies like ASP.NET, Workflow Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Offers Client Profile as a target platform Warns on use of non Client Profile assemblies Marks Client Profile application configuration files Adds Client Profile distribution to Publish and Setup projects NB: Applications without a “sku=Client” config file do not run on the Client Profile

20. 20.NET Client Profile

21. From Silverlight to WPF Designed for high level of compatibility XAML level compatibility.NET Framework API level compatibility Tooling is practically identical Skillset is a superset of Silverlight knowledge Scenarios Silverlight->WPF relatively painless WPF->Silverlight likely to be more tricky Maintaining 2 UI’s – re-use as much as possible whilst accepting differences

22. 22 WPF Airlines

23. WPF 3 rd Party Controls?

24. 24 3 rd Party Controls

25. Architectural Guidance Composite Application Guidance for WPF http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices Contains; Documentation Stock Trader sample application Library source code QuickStarts to illustrate various features

26. Resources

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