Windows Presentation Foundation Tim Huckaby CEO Inter Knowlogy

Windows Presentation Foundation Tim Huckaby CEO, Inter. Knowlogy Microsoft Regional Director & MVP

About… • Inter. Knowlogy (www. Inter. Knowlogy. com) • Tim Huckaby, CEO - (Tim. Huck@Inter. Knowlogy. com) • Custom App Dev / Consulting / Software & Systems Engineering Firm headquartered in Carlsbad, CA • Microsoft Gold Partner managed in So. Cal and Redmond • Design, Architect, Build and Deploy enterprise class applications • Industry Experts: • • • 90% of the company is published Microsoft. NET Application development for 5+ years! Microsoft. NET Smart Client pioneers / industry leaders Information Worker Solutions Integration / Messaging, B 2 B / B 2 C, Wireless / Mobility Microsoft Biz. Talk Web Services, Microsoft Active Directory, Security, SSO, Authorization, Authentication • Solutions on the emerging Microsoft servers • Largest Client: Microsoft

Agenda • • WPF & XAML Intro to Advanced in an hour…. Smart Client Technology Roadmap Demos

Web vs. WPF – NY Times Reader

What the heck is XAML? • Separates the front-end from the back-end • Simple declarative programming language suitable for constructing and initializing. NET Objects. • Usually the most concise way to represent user interfaces (or other hierarchies of objects) • Doesn’t need a compile to render • The language that almost all WPF related tools emit

Gratuitous XAML Demos

WPF – how does it work? • Built on Top of Direct 3 D • Converted to 3 D triangles, textures and other Direct 3 D objects & then rendered by hardware • Benefits of hardware acceleration & perf due to work being off-loaded to GPUs (unlike GDI based systems) • Ensures the maximum benefit of new hardware and drivers • Software rendering pipeline as fallback

Why WPF? • The GDI & USER subsystems were introduced in Windows 1. 0 in 1985 • Open. GL – Early 90 s • Direct. X – 1995 • Goal: Overcome the limits of GDI+ & USER with the productivity of Windows Forms

Hello World with VS. NET Orcas B 2

• Unified approach to UI, Documents, and Media • Integration as part of development and experience • Integrated, vector-based composition engine • Utilizing the power of the PC throughout the graphics stack • Declarative programming • Bringing designers directly into application development • Ease of deployment • Allowing administrators to deploy and manage applications securely

WPF Trivial Pursuit 1. Does WPF enable me to do something I couldn’t have done before? • No. Unless you factor in time & money… 2. Is Direct. X dead? • No. It is more applicable to advanced 3 D developers writing hard-core “twitch” games. 3. Are Winforms dead? • • • No. …but it will not be advanced; the last version was 2. 0 in. NET 2005. WPF / Winforms Bastardization Windows 98 Supports Win. Forms 4. Does WPF run better on Vista than on XP? • • Yes. 3 D objects only get anti-aliasing on Windows Vista or Later Non-rectangular windows only get hardware acceleration on Vista has a driver model that helps with resource contention

Best way to deliver superior user experiences • Improve usability, productivity, and satisfaction • Increase developer productivity • Expand product relevance Sets new bar for a modern client platform • Unified developer platform for applications, documents, and graphics • Integrated, vector-based composition engine • Support for declarative and procedural programming

Hello World WPF with Expression Designer and Expression Blend

The Scripps Research Institute Reminder: Start the TSRIDEMOSVR vpc

C-ME A Smart Client Front-end for Share. Point 2007 Tim Huckaby CEO – Inter. Knowlogy Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft MVP –. NET

Marketing Highlights • Demoed in the Steve Ballmer Keynote at the Vista / Office 2007 Launch in NY • Featured as a technical article in. NET Developers Journal Magazine • Bio. IT Alliance • • Accelerate technology solutions within the Life Science Industry Inter. Knowlogy is a founding member of the Bio. IT Alliance. Video for Microsoft WPC & MGX Launches Video for Microsoft Vista / Office Launch MSDN Channel 9 Interview Highlighted on. NET Rocks! Interview Highlighted in Tech. Ed Keynote sessions Demoed at WPC Keynotes Media Highlights:

The Peter Kuhn Lab at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) • Research Focus • Early detection and therapy management of cancer patients • Modulation of protein interactions for therapeutic intervention • Projects • Cancer bioengineering partnership • Structural Proteomics of SARS

The Problem • Laboratory Environment • • Research teams work in a distributed environment Manual, paper notebooks and prone to error Have stove pipe systems which capture data Status management requires contacting the researcher directly • Collaboration Issues • • • Data Recorded on scraps of paper then re-written in lab notebooks Pasting gel/chromatogram pictures in notebooks Too many crystal image files to keep track of & too big Manually linking patient information experimental results No way to electronically search for images

The Solution • Share. Point 2007 Collaboration • Proven collaborative solution with Share. Point 2007 • Data is stored within SPS hierarchy • Each Cancer / Sars Entity is a site • Provides a secure searchable infrastructure but…

C-ME • WPF Smart Client for Share. Point 2007 • Collaborative Client • 2 D & 3 D views at a molecular level • Leverage the collaborate environment of Share. Point 2007 • Provide data in the context of the project not in the context of it’s storage • Allow users to drag and drop data into the context of the project • Smart client then handles the display & annotations of the underlying storage • Allow user’s to add ad-hoc information

C-ME Architecture • Smart client for rich visual experience and ease of finding information • XML Web Service interfaces • Share. Point 2007 for storing data, documents and Metadata • No custom SQL structures Windows Vista. NET 3. 0 WPF Application Internet Share. Point 2007

C-ME – A. NET 3. 0 Smart Client for Share. Point 2007 Tim Huckaby CEO – Inter. Knowlogy Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft MVP –. NET

Collaborative Molecular Environment • Architectural Diagram

How the 3 d WPF Works…

3 D with WPF Check out the method level support for Rotation This is why you should have paid attention in high school calculus. .

Collective Molecular Environment

The Future: 3 D Collaborator Opens Auto. CAD *. dwg Files Natively

Existing Prototype • Technologies used • Rendering • Autodesk DWF Toolkit (C++ library) • Custom DWF C++/CLI (Managed) wrapper • C# WPF 3 D rendering • User interface • Built using WPF • XAML skin

Silverlight • Interactive experiences for devices, PC & Mac platforms • Strict subset of Windows Presentation Foundation • Lightweight download (4. 2 mbs) • Programming model uses XAML + JScript • Access to all WPF tooling WPF-based Tools <XAML> <Button Width="100 px"> OK <Button. Background> Light. Blue </Button. Background> </Button> </XAML>

Where to go next • Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) • by Adam Nathan, Daniel Lehenbauer • Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) • by Chris Anderson

Tim Huckaby, Inter. Knowlogy • More info on Inter. Knowlogy: • www. Inter. Knowlogy. com • Contact me: Tim Huckaby • E-mail: Tim. Huck@Inter. Knowlogy. com or v-Tim. Hu@Microsoft. com • Phone: 760 -930 -0075 x 201 • Blog: http: //blogs. Inter. Knowlogy. com/Tim. Huckaby • About Tim Huckaby • • • Microsoft® Regional Director – Southern California Microsoft®. NET Partner Advisory Council Founder / Member Microsoft® MVP -. NET Microsoft® Prescriptive Architecture Group Advisory Council Microsoft Office® Developer Advisory Council Microsoft® MSF advisory board member INETA Speaker – International. NET Users Group Association Windows and. NET Magazine Advisory Board Member. NET Developers Journal Magazine Advisory Board Member Author / Speaker