Windows Presentation Foundation 4 In Depth Full - Training

The WPF is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.

1. Understanding the Model-View-ViewModel pattern
The Model-View-ViewModel pattern (also called MVVM) is a hot topic in today?s Silverlight and WPF world. This pattern facilitates modern development techniques such as separation of concerns (decoupling), unit testing and test driven development, work with modern tools such as Visual Studio 2010, Expression Blend and more. In this session, Laurent (a user and promoter of MVVM since 2006) will introduce this pattern to you with many demos. We will talk about the basic components of a modern Silverlight or WPF application, and of additional helpers that will make your life as a developer much easier.

Speaker : Laurent Bugnion

2. Silverlight 4 tour de force, with a little WPF 4 sauce on top
2007... Silverlight 1.0 is released. 2010... Silverlight 4 is almost upon us. Did you lose track of all the new features that are in the platform right now? And how does Silverlight 4 compare to WPF 4? In this session, we will take you on a tour through the most exciting features that Silverlight 4 has to offer, varying from Trusted application to full data binding support, from rich text-editing to webcam support etc. While we?re at it, we?ll look at how WPF 4 can help you achieve the same effects.

Speakers : Gill Cleeren; Katrien De Graeve

3. .NET 4 Client Profile
Client profile is a subset of the full .NET framework that includes only the assemblies needed for desktop client applications; the subset decreases download size and improves install time of the framework, improving the overall deployment experience.

4. Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen
In this screencast, Marc highlights some tips and tricks for improving perceived startup performance of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and a Splash Screen. The walkthrough focuses on using the .NET Framework 4.0. However, MEF is available for WPF 3.5 SP1 as well at http://mef.codeplex.com.