Chapter 5: Windows Presentation Foundation - Do Thi Ngoc Quynh

Chapter 5: Windows Presentation Foundations objectives is a vital component to the future of application development, allowing developers to take control of the sheer power that is available at the desktop to develop rich, interactive, media-enhanced user interfaces...”.
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Chapter 5: Windows Presentation Foundation - Do Thi Ngoc Quynh Chapter 5.Windows Presentation Foundation Do Thi Ngoc Quynh Ha Noi University of Technology 1 Objectives “The Windows Presentation Foundation is a vital component to the future of application development, allowing developers to take control of the sheer power that is available at the desktop to develop rich, interactive, media-enhanced user interfaces...”Microsoft 2 Agenda  WPF Introduction  XAML  Programming WPF Applications  Building Your First WPF Application  Exploring the Layout Controls  Working with XAML Controls  Working with Graphics, Media and Animations  New in WPF 3.5  Future Directions of WPFSummaryMicrosoft 3 Part 1  WPF Introduction…Microsoft 4 Presentation Layer Architecture: From Yesterday to Tomorrow Punch-card request/response Terminal-based request/response architecture architectureMicrosoft 5 Presentation Layer Architecture: From Yesterday to Tomorrow Request/response architecture of user graphical user interface (GUI) application talking to mainframeMicrosoft 6 Presentation Layer Architecture: From Yesterday to TomorrowWeb browser–based request/response architecture Sophisticated browser architecture Microsoft 7 Presentation Layer Architecture: From Yesterday to Tomorrow The .NET Framework provides consistent browser, desktop, and server application programming interfaces (APIs)Microsoft 8 How you develop your client applications?  One set of technologies—based on HTML, DHTML, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), and Microsoft ASP.NET Atlas  gives you the same level of sophistication that a “heavy” client can give you using “light” technologies  The other approach: WPF  including a declarative XML markup language named Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) that defines the user interface, but has an incredibly powerful runtime supporting itMicrosoft 9 The Windows SDK  The Windows SDK contains all the APIs for developing next-generation Windows applications  provides the foundation for software development for the Windows server and client platforms for the foreseeable future  The Windows SDK is centered on the .NET Framework 3.0, sometimes called NetFX  which contains the classes you are familiar with from the .NET Framework 2.0 in addition to WPF, WCF, and WWFMicrosoft 10 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)  Latest UI development platform from MSFT  Integration of:  2D graphics  3D graphics  video/audio/animation  Declarative/Procedural programming model:  XAML  C#/Visual Basic/etc…Microsoft 11 WPF Features and Machinery  Control library  buttons, sliders, menus, toolbars  tool tips, popups, scroll bars, etc…  user defined as well  Layout panels  canvas, stack, wrap, doc panels  grid – most flexible  Actions  events  commands  Triggers  Styles, skins, themes, templatesMicrosoft 12 WPF - ArchitectureMicrosoft 13 Tools of the Trade  If you want to get started developing WPF applications, you’ll need to download and install the various tools, runtimes, and SDKs  Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008/2010  Microsoft Expression  http://www.microsoft.com/expression  The WinFX Runtime Components  The Windows Software Development Kit (SDK)  Visual Studio Development Tools for WinFXMicrosoft 14 Part 2  XAML...Microsoft 15 What is XAML?  Extensible Application Markup Language  For describing hierarchies of objects  For:  Developers  Designers  Code generatorsMicrosoft Why do we need XAML?  Used by WPF, WF  Also usable for your own purposes  No ...