VDUNY Past Meetings
Past Meetings Archive Index:
2007 Meetings
February 28, 2007
Speaker: Walt Ritscher (Wintellect)
By now you’ve probably heard of
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). But how well do you really
know WPF? It’s been my experience in talking to .NET developers that
many have no idea of how powerful WPF is. Some think it is a watered
down graphics engine that can animate buttons on a form. Others
think it is a new API for Vista and has no impact on applications
they are currently building.
But they are
wrong!
WPF represents the first significant change to
the Windows graphics engine in over ten years. What is trivial to
build with WPF is difficult or impossible in Microsoft's current
Winforms technology. The WPF API is chock full of improvements for
constructing rich client applications. WPF is hardware accelerated,
using the graphics rendering engine in your GPU for faster
processing of UI primitives. It is vector based, via Direct3D, which
provides truly scalable and resolution independent UIs. WPF makes it
easy to integrate video, audio, text, animation and 2D-3D graphics
into a seamless montage You may not need 3D in your business
application but I bet you have UI ideas that are difficult to
accomplish with the current set of graphics tools - like GDI. If you
truly care about creating a great user interface, you owe it to
yourself to see what WPF can do.
Here’s what one attendee to a recent NET 3.0 road-show said after
the event.
“I attended this event to learn mostly about WCF and WF. I was
expecting WPF to be a big waste of time. Not only did Walt do an
excellent job explaining the benefits of Windows Presentation
Foundation but he made a convert out of me. I never realized how
extensive WPF is, or how it simplifies so many UI design tasks. If I
had to a pick a favorite from the topics it would have to be Styles
and Templates. Wow! Powerful stuff. We are going to be using WCF in
our next release, no doubt about that, but after seeing WPF I've
already planned several UI improvements for our existing application
and I'll be using WPF for them.”
The following link will take you to Walt’s biographical
information on the Wintellect web site: Walt Ritscher.
Walt's PowerPoints And Code
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