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Friday, October 26, 2007

WPF Momentum and FREE TRAINING!

by Don Burnett

Over at the Universal Desktop Blog there is a whole bunch of talk about the newly released Vista Sales figures. I don't doubt these at all or find that they were "cherry picked" (as some commenters suggested). Office 2007 it's a big success. People find the new RIBBON and smart features easier to use. These figures are pretty amazing considering that Windows Server 2008 won't ship until early next year, when it's expected the enterprise folks will start heavy migrations to Vista in the office..

If you really want to see some great examples of more WPF enabled applications that are out there, I seriously suggest you take a look at the HI-RES version of the WPF Momentum Video.. It has quite a few WPF applications that you probably never knew about.. I talk about applications here as they are appropriate, but if you really want to get an idea of who's adopting WPF and why, this a is a great place to start. It's a big download but worth the bandwidth.

Or you can just watch it streamed here in Silverlight..

You also might find Tim Sneath's Slides on WPF very useful reading, as they point out some things about some of the great visualization applications in 3D that people are doing with WPF..

FREE WPF TRAINING AT MIX University- No Registration Required


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Now if you just don't have the time to attend a class, Microsoft has put a very valuable resource online over at Mix University if you want to develop for WPF and it's FREE of Charge..

You can't beat this if you want to get your hands around developing for WPF, it's a great thing and should speed further adoption..

Here is an outline of the sessions (from the experts at Microsoft):

WPF Bootcamp

Keynote: Windows Presentation Foundation
Ian Ellison-Taylor

A Lap Around Windows Presentation Foundation
Rob Relyea

A Lap Around Microsoft Expression Blend
Pete Faraday

Building WPF Applications Part I
Ian Griffiths

Building WPF Applications Part II
Ian Griffiths

LAB: Building WPF Applications

LAB: Building WPF XAML Browser Applications

LAB: Interactive Fabrikam Catalog in Blend

Controls, Styles and Templates
Kevin Moore

LAB: Creating a Button with Expression Blend and Design

LAB: Creating a Glass Button in Blend

Data Binding with WPF
Beatriz de Oliveira Costa

WPF Partner Showcase
Tim Sneath

Documents, Text and the Reading Experience
Kevin Gjerstad

LAB: Using Data Binding in WPF

LAB: Reading Experience

Windows Forms Interoperability
Scott Morrison

Visual Studio Orcas Enhancements for WPF
Mark Wilson-Thomas, Mark Boulter

WPF Performance
Adam Smith

Animation and Media
Peter Blois

3D Graphics
David Teitlebaum, Kurt Berglund

LAB: Creating Rich 2D and 3D Content with Windows Presentation Foundation

LAB: 3D Graphics

Real World Experiences - Yahoo Messenger
Eric Burke

Real World Experiences - Scripps Healthcare
Adam Calderon

Real World Experiences - Vertigo Family Tree Explorer
Scott Stanfield

Real World Experiences - Dynamics Modeler
Jonathan Russ

Real World Experiences - North Face In-Store Explorer
Darren David

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