Expanded Windows Presentation Foundation Courseware
November 25, 2008.
Object Innovations today released expanded four-day course on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
The expanded courses, available in both C# and Visual Basic, are:
Thes courses cover Windows Presentation Foundation or WPF ("Avalon"),
the new .NET technology from Microsoft for building rich Windows applications,
originally part of .NET 3.0, previously called "WinFX" by Microsoft. The
expanded courseware is current to .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.
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 Object Innovations courses provide a practical, hands-on introduction
to the 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.
With the expanded material, the courseware now includes coverage of a number of important intermediate
and advanced topics, including resources, routed events, dependency properties, data binding,
styles, templates, skins and themes.
Shipments of the new courseware begin immediately.
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