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

Course: 975 Type: Hands-On Training Duration: 4 Days

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
Bind WPF controls to one another, XML and object data for dynamic data presentation
Build rich Internet applications for Windows and Mac computers using Silverlight

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
Synchronizing user interfaces to bindable data sources

Course 975 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 behaviors in code-behind files
Publishing WPF applications with ClickOnce

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
Resizing 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 behaviors 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

Utilizing the Open, Save and Print dialogs
Assembling custom dialogs

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 access 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

Crafting Cross-Platform Silverlight UIs

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
Navigating Silverlight applications
Exploiting WCF services

Integrating Silverlight with ASP.NET

Accessing the browser
Controlling HTML page content
Invoking JavaScript functions from Silverlight
Calling Silverlight functions from JavaScript

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Course Description

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

Classroom Dates
Jul 28-31: New York enroll
Jul 28-31: Toronto enroll
Sep 1-4: Washington, DC (Rockville, MD) enroll
Sep 15-18: Ottawa enroll
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Oct 27-30: Toronto enroll
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Nov 17-20: New York enroll
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Course Tuition

$ 2,790	Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,667	Training Passport
$ 1,700	Premium-Pass
$ 2,170	Triple-Pack
$ 2,200	Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515	Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484	Government Discount

Participants programming WPF with XAML.

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