.NET 3.5 Courses: Windows Presentation Foundation
August 4, 2008.
Continuing the upgrade of its extensive .NET curriculum to .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008,
Object Innovations today released two three-day course on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
The new and updated courses are:
This course introduces Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF ("Avalon"),
the new .NET technology from Microsoft for building rich Windows applications.
It was originally part of .NET 3.0, previously called "WinFX" by Microsoft. The
new courseware is current to .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.
WPF is both a significant new technology from Microsoft and also a very complex one.
Its sheer size is staggering, and there are many important concepts that must be mastered
to be truly proficient in programming WPF. The learning curve can be steep.
The Object Innovations courses provide a practical, hands-on introduction
to the basic areas of the technology, enabling a programmer to do with WPF
the typical things they can do with other Windows GUI development technologies,
such as MFC, Visual Basic or Windows Forms: create applications with windows, controls,
dialogs, menus and toolbars. It includes a treatment of XAML, an XML-based declarative language
for defining program elements. It also covers the flexible layout capabilities of WPF
(something that goes far beyond what can be done conveniently in Windows Forms)
and the command architecture that is more flexible than events. The new version of the courseware
includes an additional chapter on resources and dependency properties.
There are a great many example programs and many labs. The course includes a
progressive case study, the development of a simple editor with a number of typical UI features.
The previous version of the C# course on WPF running on Visual Studio 2005 (Course 463)
remains available,
but the new courseware is strongly recommended, because of the compelling tool support available
with Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas"). It is easy to deliver the course using Visual Studio 2008, because
the course will run on the freely available Express Editions.
Expanded 4-day WPF courseware, covering additional features of WPF such as styles, templates
and data binding, is coming soon.
Shipments of the new courseware begin immediately.
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