Hitchhikers Guide to Avalon

The Hitchhiker’sGuide to “Avalon”: 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to 'Avalon' An Introduction to the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Ken LeFebvre Bennett Adelson klefebvre@bennettadelson.com kenneth@lefebvre.us http://blogs.lefebvre.us/kenneth/

Agenda: 

Agenda Current State of Affairs Overview of the Windows Presentation Foundation Demonstrations

Current State of Affairs: 

Microsoft Word Current State of Affairs Graphics hardware is underutilized Compare Halo with User Interface technologies disorganized Windows Forms API DirectX API TrueType Speech

Windows Presentation Foundation: 

Windows Presentation Foundation Unify all presentation technologies 2-D and 3-D drawing Document printing and rendering Speech synthesis and recognition Audio and Video services Take advantage of hardware Vector-based Resolution-independent Hardware acceleration New Declarative Programming Model

Windows Integration: 

Windows Integration Built into Windows Vista (not installed, by default, in Beta 1) Add-on for older versions of Windows Windows XP Windows Server 2003

New Features: 

New Features Declarative Model: XAML 'Express' applications 'Metro' document and print technology Multimedia Speech synthesis and recognition New controls

Additional Resources: 

Additional Resources http://www.msdn.com/longhorn http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com http://www.longhornblogs.com nntp://microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.avalon http://www.xamlshare.com http://www.xaml.net http://blogs.lefebvre.us/kenneth

Avalon Blogs: 

Avalon Blogs Adam Nathan’s Win32 to WinFX Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan Designers Love .NET (Nathan Dunlap) http://www.designerslove.net/ Not Static http://www.notstatic.com Simple Geek (Chris Anderson) http://www.simplegeek.com/ Fortes.com andgt; Work (Filipe Fortes) http://fortes.com/work Greg Schechter’s Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/ Tales from the Smart Client (John Gossman) http://blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/

Avalon Blogs: 

Avalon Blogs Tales from the Smart Client (John Gossman) http://blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/ IRhetoric (Karsten Januszewski) http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/ Lauren Lavoie http://laurenlavoie.com/ Nick on Windows Presentation Foundation (Nick Kramer) http://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/ Okoboji (Kevin Moore) http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/ Blog xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/xaml/2005' / (Rob Relyea) http://www.longhornblogs.com/rrelyea/ Tim Sneath http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/ Ryan Dawson on Longhorn http://www.longhornblogs.com/rdawson/