My Favorite Windows Presentation Foundation 4 Features

1. Required Slide SESSION CODE: WCL202 My Favorite Windows Presentation Foundation 4 Features Ken Getz Senior Consultant MCW Technologies, LLC

2. Me.About Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies Author of several developer’s books on ASP.NET, VB, Access, and VBA Lead courseware author for AppDev (http://www.appdev.com) keng@mcwtech.com

3. Agenda • New Controls and Data Binding • WPF and Silverlight Designer • Visual State Manager • WPF and Windows

4. New Controls • WPF 4.0 includes new controls: • DataGrid • Calendar • DatePicker • Outside of Visual Studio • Can download Ribbon control • Provides Office-like functionality

5. DataGrid Control • Most often used in connection with WPF data binding • Example demonstrates using bound data • DataGrid displays data in grid of rows and columns • Specify data source using the ItemsSource property • By default, DataGrid auto-generates columns based on the data source

6. DataGrid Control • Column types: • DataGridTextColumn • DataGridCheckBoxColumn • DataGridComboBoxColumn • DataGridHyperlinkColumn

7. Data Binding • WPF adds support for standard drag and drop data binding • Feels similar to Windows Forms data binding • Designer creates necessary code to fill and bind data sources • Data handling provided by data mechanisms • Similar to binding in Windows forms

8. DEMO • Demonstrate Data Binding and DataGrid control

9. WPF (and Silverlight) Designer • Improved support for Silverlight • Same designer for WPF and Silverlight applications • Visual Databinding • New data binding builder enables visual construction and editing of bindings—no XAML required • Already seen, in previous demo • Auto Layout • More intuitive Grid designer and better support for automatically sizing user controls • Improved Property Editing • Can visually create/edit Brush resources

10. DEMO • Work with WPF designer

11. Calendar Control • DisplayMode • Decade, Month, Year • SelectionMode • MultipleRange, None, SingleRange, SingleDate • SelectedDate, SelectedDates properties • DisplayDateStart/DisplayDateEnd • SelectedDatesChangedevent

12. DatePicker Control • Combination of TextBox and Calendar

13. Visual State Manager • Enables you to specify: • States for a control • Appearance of a control in a certain state • When a control state changes • For example: • Button might have slightly different appearance when pressed vs. not pressed • Button control defines states Normal and Pressed • Appearance of control when in a state defined by a VisualState • Contains a collection of Storyboard objects

14. Visual State Manager • Add visual states to a control by setting VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups • Each VisualStateGroup contains a collection of mutually exclusive VisualState objects • Control is always in exactly one state • VSM allows you to specify when control enters a specific state • For a given state, can specify a StoryBoard • Can supply transitions

15. Easing Functions • Determines the “shape” of the transition • Built-in quadratic, exponential, and more • For full demo of easing functions: • http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/Silverlight/silverlight_next/Animations/easing_functions_gallery/testpage.html

16. DEMO • Create VisualStateManager for Rectangle

17. WPF and Windows • WPF adds support for Windows features • System.Windows.Shell namespace adds support for Windows 7 features like: • Jumplists • TaskBar Items • WPF adds support for custom places on dialog boxes • Demo works with TaskBarItemInfo and JumpLists

18. DEMO • TaskBarItemInfo

19. Thanks for Coming! • WCL202--My Favorite Windows Presentation Foundation 4 Features • Ken Getz • keng@mcwtech.com

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