1. Delivering the Art of Software WPF & Silverlight: Data Visualization, NUI, and Next Generation of User Experience Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP Level: Beginner / Intermediate

2. About… InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com) Tim Huckaby, Founder/Chairman (TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com) –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 (www.Actus-Software.com) Tim Huckaby, Founder/CEO (TimHuck@Actus-Software.com) Software Product Company, Coming soon…

3. A little bit about me and why I am here…

4. 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!... What this session is NOT: a “Stare at C#” Session

5. 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

6. Delivering the Art of Software Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP WPF 3D WPF 3D The Scripps Research Institute VitruView AutoCad – dwf Viewer

7. Delivering the Art of Software Surface WPF 3D: The Scripps Research Institute VitruView Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP

8. Touch Capable Computing Devices are Not New Past Future (Now) Present 1972: PLATO IV Touch Screen Terminal The Microsoft Surface Windows 7 Multi- touch

9. Delivering the Art of Software What is Relatively New is:  Inexpensive Touch Capable, Non Proprietary Hardware  A Multi-Touch Capable Windows OS  A Consistent Multi-Touch API for.NET across 3 Windows Hardware/Software Platforms  Developer Productivity in Touch Capable Apps  The Forecast of Touch Capability in Every New Computing Device in the Short Term

10. Delivering the Art of Software Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP Surface WPF 3D: The Scripps Research Institute VitruView

11. 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

12. Delivering the Art of Software 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?

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

14. Delivering the Art of Software Complex XAML Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP

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

16. 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

17. Delivering the Art of Software Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP WPF, Surface, & Silverlight Library of Congress Win7 WPF multi-touch Silverlight

18. Delivering the Art of Software Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP WPF, Surface, & Silverlight Library of Congress Win7 WPF multi-touch Silverlight

19. Silverlight… “WPF Light” Interactive experiences for devices, PC, & Mac platforms (and others…) Strict subset of Windows Presentation Foundation Lightweight download (4.2mbs) Programming model uses XAML + Jscript + WPF Access to WPF tooling Touch Capability in Version 3.0 Lightweight WPF runtime OK LightBlue WPF-based Tools

20. Delivering the Art of Software Silverlight 43Things.com InterKnowlogy Wish 43 WP7 Wish43 Tim Huckaby Founder, InterKnowlogy & Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP

21. Delivering the Art of Software Eclipsys Corporation Silverlight 3 - Enterprise Visibility Real-time Hospital Operations Tim Huckaby Founder, InterKnowlogy & Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP Silverlight

22. Eclipsys Maestro: Hospital Management

24. 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

25. Delivering the Art of Software Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP EMN8 & REZN8

26. Delivering the Art of Software 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."

27. Delivering the Art of Software Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP NASA: Mars Bound

28. 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

29. 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 2005. –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 or later –Vista & Win7 have 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”…

30. 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?" videos Learn 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 stack MIX University's WPF Bootcamp

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

32. Where to go next The InterKnowlogy WPF & Silverlight Reference Applications

33. Silverlight: Where to go Next Free Resources http://Silverlight.net - this is the official Microsoft community portal for Silverlight development http://www.Microsoft.com/Silverlight - This is the official product site http://developer.windowsphone.com – Free Windows Phone Developer Tools (1 download)

34. 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

35. 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

36. Windows Client Guidance Microsoft Platform Solution Architecture for the Application Developer by Tim Huckaby The “anchor document” to a ton of Rich Client Guidance http://WindowsClientGuidance.InterKnowlogy.com

37. Summary We are at the Edge of the Rich Client revolution HTML is sufficient for Web Sites, but mostly 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

38. Delivering the Art of Software Tim Huckaby Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy Founder / CEO, Actus Software Microsoft RD & MVP

39. Tim Huckaby More info on InterKnowlogy: –www.InterKnowlogy.com –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 –Author / Speaker Contact me: Tim Huckaby E-mail: TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com Phone: Office: 760-444-8640 Mobile: 619 990 9200 Blog: http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/timh uckaby http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/timh uckaby FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/Tim.Huckaby.Car lsbad LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timhuckaby