Windows Presentation Foundation Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008Mark Wilson-ThomasProgram Manager, WPF designer teamMicrosoft Corporation

Understand what kind of applications Windows Presentation Foundation can deliver

See how Visual Studio 2008 & Microsoft Expression Blend work together to enable building and deploying WPF applicationsUnderstand when to use the Visual Studio WPF Design surface and XAML Editor

Know how to start achieving designer/developer workflow

What you can expect to get out of this session

A Visual Studio and WPF centered session – no Silverlight 2 and very limited Blend coverage

WPF Applications iBloks

WPF ApplicationsBritish Library "Turning the Pages" Rare Book Viewer

WPF Applications Online Newspaper Reader

Check out http://windowsclient.net/wpf/starter-kits/sce.aspx

AdventureWorks "Pulse"

demo

Building AW Pulse

demo

LayoutOther layout containers supported

include Canvas and (limited

support) DockPanel StackPanel

Designer helps you use the Grid

easily

Easy control over

resize behavior

XAML Development

Create from ToolBox support

IntelliSense for custom types

Support for consuming

licensed third-party controls

Great navigation and selection aids

Visual Studio is for Development TasksExpression Blend is for Design Tasks

Advanced layoutsHooking up eventsCode editing (C#, VB)XAML editingDebuggingDeployment

Advanced layoutsControl Template EditsTriggersData templates AnimationManipulating Transforms

XAML (especially resource dictionaries) Shared WPF Project Templates

Deployment

Full ClickOnce publishing support in Visual Studio and SDK.NET FX redists for down-level deploymentVisual Studio Windows Installer support for stand-alone WPF applicationsXBAPs supported in IE and (since .NET 3.5) in Firefox on PC

Break It Down iBloks

Break It Down iBloks

Tools Futures…

Visual Studio 2008 SP begun – some key feedback responded to

Events TabTabControl design timeGo to definition/Refactoring support for XAMLLots more XAML will load

Silverlight 2 Tools Release Support for creating Silverlight 2 applicationsWorkflow with Blend (currently in preview)

Continued investment in developer productivity planned

Summary

WPF enables rich user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents WPF tools in Visual Studio 2008 enables application development; our goal is to make this even easierVisual Studio and Expression Blend allow full fidelity flow between design and development tasks on a common set of assets

Questions?

Ask away!…and come and chat with the designer team in the Open Space down in the Sandbox Area 1 afterwards!…and comment on the video thread once this session’s posted online

Please don’t forget your Evals…

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