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Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight Introduction: Hands-On

Course: 975   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 4 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Create compelling, modern user experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • Leverage Visual Studio to create WPF windows and pages with XAML, C# and VB
  • Program stand-alone, browser-based (XBAP), navigation-style and Silverlight applications using XAML
  • Produce dynamic content with WPF controls, styles, templates, triggers and animation
  • Build rich Internet applications for Windows and Mac computers using Silverlight
  • Bind WPF controls to one another, XML and object data for dynamic data presentation

Course Benefits
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the next generation platform for creating user interfaces (UIs) with the Microsoft .NET Framework. Using WPF, developers and designers can easily create programs that are dynamic, data-driven and visually appealing. In this course, you program applications that integrate the major components of WPF. You also learn how to target your WPF applications for multiple platforms with Silverlight.

Who Should Attend
.NET and other developers who want to leverage WPF to build modern, visual applications for Windows, Internet Explorer or Silverlight. .NET programming experience at the level of Course 502, "Programming with .NET Introduction," is assumed.

Hands-on Training
You gain hands-on experience building WPF applications with XAML, VB and C#. Exercises include:
  • Creating WPF stand-alone, browser-based and Silverlight projects using Visual Studio 2008
  • Programming XAML applications and user interfaces with WPF containers and controls
  • Enhancing controls with styles, templates and triggers
  • Integrating Silverlight into Web applications for a rich user experience
  • Synchronising user interfaces to bindable data sources

Course Content
Introducing WPF
  • .NET 3 and 3.5 architecture overview
  • Advantages of WPF
Building XAML Windows and Pages
Creating WPF applications in Visual Studio
  • Setting window properties
  • Changing application settings
  • Implementing behaviours in code-behind files
Applying XAML
  • Adding controls to containers
  • Setting properties in XAML
  • Handling window and control events with C# or VB
  • Opening and controlling other windows
Architecting WPF Programs
Building browser-based applications (XBAP)
  • Loading XAML pages into the browser
  • Moving between pages with the navigation service
  • Hyperlinking to other pages and Web sites
Constructing navigation applications
  • Loading pages into a navigation window
  • Passing data between pages
  • Navigating page history
  • Dragging borderless windows
Designing WPF User Interfaces
Leveraging WPF controls
  • Button
  • TextBox
  • TextBlock
  • Label
  • Checkbox
  • Slider
  • Image
  • Menus
  • Status bars
  • RichTextBox
  • Positioning controls in the Grid and Canvas containers
Managing sophisticated layouts
  • Defining grid rows and columns
  • Assigning controls to grid cells
  • Spanning multiple cells
  • Resising rows and columns with the GridSplitter
  • Positioning elements with StackPanel and WrapPanel
  • Docking controls to windows using the DockPanel
Styling WPF Controls
Altering the appearance of UI elements
  • Margin
  • Padding
  • Fonts
  • Background
  • Foreground
  • Opacity
  • Transparency
  • Specifying styles using elements
  • Binding styles dynamically
Maintaining consistent styles with resources
  • Naming and extending control styles
  • Modifying elements with control templates
  • Drawing shapes and gradients
  • Adding behaviours to templates using property triggers
  • Designing sophisticated effects with animations
Activating WPF Applications
Exploiting routed events and event triggers
  • Handling bubbling and tunneling events
  • Responding to user interaction with event triggers
  • Streamlining event handling with WPF commands
Interacting with users
  • Utilising the Open, Save and Print dialogs
  • Assembling custom dialogs
Crafting Cross-Platform Silverlight UIs
Analysing Silverlight
  • Limitations and differences with standard WPF
  • Language and integration choices
Building Silverlight script webs
  • Programming XAML with JavaScript
  • Delivering video online with the MediaElement control
Creating Silverlight application projects
  • Employing Silverlight 2.0 controls
  • Coding Silverlight with C# and VB
  • Testing Silverlight UIs with HTML and ASP.NET pages
Automating Data Access with Data Binding
Binding control properties with XAML
  • ItemsControl
  • ComboBox
  • ListBox
  • Formatting content with data templates
  • Enhancing forms with scrollable and expandable regions
Simplifying data acccess with data providers
  • Displaying XML data with the XMLDataProvider and XPath
  • Accessing collections using the ObjectDataProvider
  • Implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface
  • Refreshing records automatically using ObservableCollection
Deploying WPF Projects
  • Publishing WPF applications with ClickOnce
  • Requesting XBAP pages from ASP.NET
  • Controlling Code Access Security

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WPF and Silverlight Introduction
Course Schedule
23 - 26 Sep, 2008
London
9 - 12 Dec, 2008
London
24 - 27 Feb, 2009
London
19 - 22 May, 2009
London
11 - 14 Aug, 2009
London

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£ 1,695 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
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£ 915 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 1,460 - 10-Training Vouchers
£ 1,560 - 5-Training Vouchers
£ 1,525 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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