What's New for Presentation in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

What’s New for Presentation in Visual Studio 2008 SP 1? Mike Taulty Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd [email_address] http://miketaulty.com

Agenda

ASP.NET and Silverlight Controls

<asp:Silverlight> control

Hides the raw <OBJECT> tag needed for Silverlight

Handles both Silverlight V1 and V2

<asp:MediaPlayer> control

Wraps a full Silverlight media player around a video

Player defined in a templated XAML file

Templates also used in Expression Encoder 2

Driven by JavaScript embedded into the control

Support for definition of chapters with thumbnails

Silverlight Controls

ASP.NET and “AJAX”

AJAX History Support

Provides a way of marking and restoring navigation points in an AJAX application

AJAX Script Combining

<CompositeScript/> element

JavaScript formatting options in the IDE

JavaScript IntelliSense

Better support for 3 rd Party libraries (JQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, ExtJS)

AJAX and JavaScript

ASP.NET Routing

Breaks the link between on-disk files and Http Handlers

Request UrlRoutingModule RouteTable Route URL Pattern Handler Defaults Constraints Route URL Pattern Handler Defaults Constraints Route URL Pattern Handler Defaults Constraints

ASP.NET Routing

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

“ Scaffolding” framework for “instant” ASP.NET applications

Routing Pages Item Display Validation

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Agenda

Performance Enhancements

Cold start-up time of WPF applications

Working-set of WPF applications

Various controls within WPF

Deferred scrolling

Recycling containers in ItemsControl

Virtualising the TreeView control

Other areas

Text Rendering

Better XBAP Startup/Download

ListView and TreeView

Effects & Direct3D Interop

Bitmap effects moved to hardware rendering

BlurEffect

DropShadowEffect

Deprecating other ( software ) effects

Bevel, Emboss, OuterGlow

Direct3D Interoperability class

D3DImage is an ImageSource

Allows for a D3D scene to be used anywhere an Image or ImageBrush would be used

Beyond previous HWND-level interop which hits “AirSpace” issues

Pixel Shader Effects

New, extensible Pixel Shader effects

Easier to use than to write

Can expose DependencyProperties for binding

Written in High Level Shader Language

Compile with DirectX SDK, embed in assembly

Link with WPF code via ShaderEffect base class

Supports multi-input shaders for transitions

Effects, Shaders & Direct3D

Application Model & Controls

Splash Screen – simple addition

WebBrowser control

Similar to what we see in Windows Forms

Load HTML from streams or strings

Call JavaScript functions from WPF

Call WPF functions from JavaScript

More controls coming post-Sp1

DataGrid and Ribbon

Early versions on CodePlex in the WPF Toolkit

WebBrowser, SplashScreen, DataGrid

.NET Client Profile

Trimmed .NET Framework 3.5 Sp 1 for Clients

Customisable installation process

Online bootstrapper ( ~270KB )

Offline installer ( ~ 250MB )

Works with XBAP, ClickOnce, Setup.exe

Target has .NET? Install 3.5 Sp1 Reboot Admin Required Yes Install ~28MB Client Profile No Reboot Admin Required Schedule 3.5 Sp1 Install No

.NET Client Profile

Subset of .NET Framework V3.5 Sp1

Not technologies like ASP.NET, Workflow

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Offers Client Profile as a target platform

Warns on use of non Client Profile assemblies

Marks Client Profile application configuration files

Adds Client Profile distribution to Publish and Setup projects

NB: Applications without a “sku=Client” config file do not run on the Client Profile

.NET Client Profile

Resources “ Learn Section” - .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 www.asp.net

Resources

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