Understand what kind of applications Windows Presentation Foundation can deliver See how Visual Studio 2008 & Microsoft Expression Blend work together to enable building and deploying WPF applications Understand when to use the Visual Studio WPF Design surface and XAML Editor Know how to start achieving designer/developer workflow A Visual Studio and WPF centered session – no Silverlight 2 and very limited Blend coverage

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Other layout containers supported include Canvas and (limited support) DockPanel StackPanel Designer helps you use the Grid easily Easy control over resize behavior

Create from ToolBox support IntelliSense for custom types Support for consuming licensed third- party controls Great navigation and selection aids

Advanced layouts Hooking up events Code editing (C#, VB) XAML editing DebuggingDeployment Advanced layouts Control Template Edits Triggers Data templates Animation Manipulating Transforms XAML (especially resource dictionaries) Shared WPF Project Templates Shared WPF Project Templates

Full ClickOnce publishing support in Visual Studio and SDK.NET FX redists for down-level deployment Visual Studio Windows Installer support for stand-alone WPF applications XBAPs supported in IE and (since.NET 3.5) in Firefox on PC

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Visual Studio 2008 SP begun – some key feedback responded to Events Tab TabControl design time Go to definition/Refactoring support for XAML Lots more XAML will load Silverlight 2 Tools Release Support for creating Silverlight 2 applications Workflow with Blend (currently in preview) Continued investment in developer productivity planned

WPF enables rich user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents WPF tools in Visual Studio 2008 enables application development; our goal is to make this even easier Visual Studio and Expression Blend allow full fidelity flow between design and development tasks on a common set of assets

Ask away! …and come and chat with the designer team in the Open Space down in the Sandbox Area 1 afterwards! …and comment on the video thread once this session’s posted online Please don’t forget your Evals…

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