1. Laurent Bugnion Senior User Experience Developer IdentityMine

3. Toolkit: http://wpf.codeplex.comhttp://wpf.codeplex.com MVVM: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx Lab: http://tinyurl.com/WPFLOBhttp://tinyurl.com/WPFLOB

8. Multitouch is coming (Natural User Interface) Surface experience is leveraged for Win7 WPF is ready for Windows 7 Jump List integration Thumbnail customization

9. Improvement of the languages will improve WPF too! http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL36/ (XAML) Unifying the different XAML versions Names reference, Types, Generics, Delegates, Arguments, Factory Methods… http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL16/ (C#) More dynamic Better interoperability

10. Replacement for BitmapEffects Too inefficient (no GPU acceleration) Will no-op in WPF 4 Exception: Blur and DropShadow Highly efficient, parallel computing Optimized for GPU

11. float4 myColor = { 0.5f, 0.2f, 0.4f, 0.2f }; float4 colorFilter = {0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f}; float4 result = myColor * colorFilter; result == {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.4f, 0.2f} {result.x, result.y, result.z, result.w} …equivalent to {result.r, result,g, result.b, result.a} Grid g = new Grid(); MyEffect me = new MyEffect(); g.Effect = me;

12. David Teitlebaum (PDC08): http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC07/ http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC07/ IdentityMine Surface applications: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=identitymine http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=identitymine

13. http://shazzam-tool.com/

14. http://blog.galasoft.ch http://www.techdays.ch

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