6460 - Visual Studio 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation

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COURSE LENGTH: 3 Days

COURSE COST: $1495*

COURSE TIMES: 8:30am - 4:00pm


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COURSE OVERVIEW

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to build and configure a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) solution.

*Course Cost does not include books. Please contact a VTEC Account Manager for details.

This course is intended for application developers who know how to build Windows Forms applications, custom user controls in .NET 2.0 and how to use the common features of the base class library. They do not have to understand concepts such advanced UI threading and asynchronous programming, building custom controls from scratch or using GDI. They also do not need experience building Visual Studio addins or custom designers.

Before attending this course, students should have intermediate experience developing applications by using previous versions of Microsoft Visual Studio.

COURSE TOPICS:

Overview of WPF

Creating a Simple WPF Application

Handling Events and Commands

Navigating Between Pages

Defining Layout

Using Content Controls

Using Item Controls

Hosting Windows Forms Controls

Sharing Logical Resources in an Application

Creating Consistent User Interfaces Using Styles

Changing the Appearance of Controls Using Templates

Using Triggers and Animations

Overview of Data Binding

Create a Data Binding

Implementing Property Change Notification

Converting Data

Validating Data

Binding to Collections of Objects

Using Collection Views

Create Master-Detail User Interfaces

Using Data Templates

Overview of Control Authoring

Creating Controls

Working with Flow Documents

Working with Fixed Documents

Packaging Documents

Printing Documents

Displaying 2D graphics

Displaying Images

Displaying 3D Graphics

Going Further with 3D Graphics

Adding Multimedia Support

Deployment Options

Deploying a Standalone WPF Application

Deploying an XBAP Application

Configuring Security Settings