HardcoreWPF-brains-N.ppt

Hardcore WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) casey chesnut brains-N- Madison .NET 11/06 Source Fundamental demos /artifacts/HardcoreWPF.zip /backRow demo http://www.brains-N-/backRow/ brains-N- Pervasive Computing Tablet PC (MVP 03) Compact Framework (MVP 04) Advanced Web Services (MVP 05) Media Center (MVP 06) Speech Location Based Services Artificial Intelligence 3D OUTLINE Overview Fundamentals – demos! Application Models /backRow demo! OUTLINE : Overview Now GDI (20 years), GDI+, WinForms DirectX (11 years), Direct3D Quartz, DirectShow (8 years) Problems Showing their age Each API is different Mixing APIs is challenging Next Gen WPF – replaces GDI Direct3D – large games, used by WPF Media Foundation – ultimately will replace DirectShow MCML –markup language for Media Center Edition applications XNA – small games WPF Compositing UI, Documents, Media, 3D, Browser, … Declarative programming with XAML markup For Designers and Developers Rewritten from scratch Built on top of Direct3D Hardware accelerated Vector based Resolution independent (1/96 inch) Retained graphics Platforms Vista XP SP2 Server 2003 SP1 Renders the same on each Remote Desktop transport Subsets of WPF (XPS, WPF/E) will make it to other platforms Tiers Tier 2 – DirectX 9, Shader 2.0, 128 megs video ram (hardware rendering) Tier 1 – DirectX 7, 32 megs video ram (mixed hw/sw rendering) Tier 0 – below (software rendering) Defaults to 60 fps Anti-aliasing Timeline Pillar of .NET 3.0 Class libraries built on .NET 2.0 WPF, WCF, WF, InfoCard Past Release Candidate Go-live licenses available Released with Vista “Orcas”, .NET 3.X coming after that Installation Visual Studio 2005 .NET 3.0 (pre-installed with Vista) Runtime Windows SDK MSBuild, XAMLPad, samples Orcas extension for VS 2005 Visual designer, schemas, project templates Tools Windows SDK XAMLPad, Perforator, UISpy, XPS Conformance, WICExplorer VS 2005 Orcas Extensions (beta) Electric Rain Zam 3D Mobiform Aurora Microsoft Expression Grap