New .NET 3.0 Course: Windows Presentation Foundation
March 21, 2007.
Beginning its introduction of courseware covering Microsoft’s new .NET 3.0 technology,
Object Innovations today released a new three-day course on Windows Presentation Foundation.
The new course is:
This course introduces Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF ("Avalon"),
the new .NET technology from Microsoft for building rich Windows applications.
It is part of .NET 3.0, previously called "WinFX."
WPF is both a significant new technology from Microsoft and also a very complex one.
Its sheer size is staggering, and there are many important concepts that must be mastered
to be truly proficient in programming WPF. The learning curve can be steep.
The new Object Innovations course provides a practical, hands-on introduction
to the most basic areas of the technology, enabling a programmer to do with WPF
the typical things they can do with other Windows GUI development technologies,
such as MFC, Visual Basic or Windows Forms: create applications with windows, controls,
dialogs, menus and toolbars. It includes a treatment of XAML, an XML-based declarative language
for defining program elements. It also covers the flexible layout capabilities of WPF
(something that goes far beyond what can be done conveniently in Windows Forms)
and the command architecture that is more flexible than events.
There are a great many example programs and many labs. The course includes a
progressive case study, the development of a simple editor with a number of typical UI features.
The new course is part of an extensive .NET curriculum, providing parallel courses in
C# and Visual Basic. In the coming months Object Innovations will be introducing
additional new courses on .NET 3.0, including the important Windows Communications Foundation.
Shipments of the new courseware begin immediately.
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