Why Wpf

Why WPF?
A beginner look to Windows Presentation Foundation
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Challenge
Delivering meaningful information
More responsive user interface
Providing more collaboration between UI designer and software developer
Providing attractive UI
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Green Screen Era
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Green Screen Era
Limitation on information visualization
User have to memorize UI flow and function
Relative fast and responsive
User focusing only one task at screen
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Green Screen Era
There is no need to hire designer to improve UI experience
Tight coupling between UI, logical and data
Developer must be careful on displaying information
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Desktop GUI Era
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Desktop GUI Era
Either keyboard only or use mouse
Development relative complex.
Mostly separate data and UI
Slow and not too responsive. Must know how to speed up UI responsiveness
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Desktop GUI Era
Developer have to aware of UX. Developer have to know a little bit about design
Some developers need to use 3rd party UI control to beautify forms look and feel
Deployment is relative hard.
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Today: WPF
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Today: WPF
There is no limitation on information visualization. Either data is offline or live.
Relative fast and responsive UI.
Can be many possibilities to define UI
Needs for a new hardware and independent graphics card for increasing performance
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Today : WPF
There are collaboration between software developer and designer
Development can be easier. Developer have to study declarative programming
Designer can completely change UI by modifying XAML ; not just change font and color
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Today : WPF
Fewer Control Needed to build applications.
Separating between UI and logic + database
Deployment is relative easy from ClickOnce to windows installer
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WPF : How to start
Studying imperative language like VB.NET or C#.NET
Studying XML. XAML is built based on XML
Studying declarative concept in programming. Most of us already know this by utilizing SQL
XAML
WPF itself
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WPF : Resources
Picture of Green Screen era is adopted from past project with the permission from the client
Picture of Desktop GUI is adopted from past project with the permission from the client
Picture of WPF is adopted from Microsoft sample : Contoso Healthcare prototype
MSDN Library on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library or download offline version
Sample and blogs of WPF from http://windowsclient.net
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