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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)
Employ 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
Leverage the MVVM design pattern and the binding infrastructure for 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
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

Related Courses

.NET 3.0/3.5 Overview - Course 976
.NET Web Services Introduction - Course 2601
Programming C# Extended Features - Course 973
.NET Best Practices and Design Patterns - Course 511
Programming SharePoint 2010 Applications with .NET - Course 2615
Building Web Applications with ASP.NET and Ajax - Course 506
ASP.NET WebForms Comprehensive Introduction - Course 512
Windows Azure - Course 2602
Building Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC - Course 977

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

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

Course 975 Content

Building XAML Windows and Pages

Introducing WPF

.NET architectural overview
Advantages of WPF

Creating WPF applications in Visual Studio

Setting application and window properties
Implementing behaviors in code-behind files
Publishing WPF applications with ClickOnce

Coding in XAML

Adding controls to containers
Setting properties using attribute and element syntax
Referencing external namespaces using XAML
Handling bubbling and tunneling routed events

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
Creating irregularly shaped and transparent 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

Maintaining consistent styles with resources

Naming and extending control styles
Packaging styles in resource dictionaries
Customizing controls with templates
Drawing shapes and gradients
Converting scalable vector graphics to XAML

Activating WPF Applications

Animating UIs for dynamic presentations

Moving, sizing and rotating elements with transformations
Transforming elements with animations
Adding behaviors to styles using event and property triggers

Optimizing for code reuse

Streamlining event handling with WPF commands
Utilizing the common and custom dialogs
Creating user controls
Specifying dependency properties

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

Accessing data using data providers

Displaying XML data with the XMLDataProvider and XPath
Accessing collections using the ObjectDataProvider
Programming custom type-converters

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern

Binding to the ViewModel class
Validating user input
Implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface
Refreshing records automatically using ObservableCollection

Crafting Cross-Platform Silverlight UIs

Creating Silverlight Web applications

Coding Silverlight with C#, VB and JavaScript
Delivering video online with the Media Element control
Employing Silverlight controls
Exploiting WCF services

Running Silverlight applications outside the browser

Installing Silverlight applications on Windows and OS X
Downloading updates
Detecting the network

Integrating Silverlight with ASP.NET

Accessing the browser
Controlling HTML page content
Invoking JavaScript functions from Silverlight and vice versa

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

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

Course Tuition

$ 2,890	Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,623	Premium-Pass
$ 1,833	Training Passport
$ 2,250	Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,573	Government Discount
$ 2,600	Alumni Gold Discount

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

Class participation
Team workshops
Use of in-class hands-on equipment
Comprehensive course materials
Morning and afternoon refreshments
Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
FREE participation in Professional Certification
FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)

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