Kathleen Dollard - WPF with introduction of some graphics and animation

Intended Audience:
Software developers with some prior experience with .NET.

Description:
Description: Have you seen Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) portrayed as a way to spin photos on cubes and wondered what this had to do with you? Windows Presentation Foundation does take us into a new realm of graphics, but it also offers a radical new UI model that's well worth exploring. This session focuses on how you can use WPF to make business user interfaces. We'll focus on the underlying model and separation of UI into discrete pieces that can be expressed in different ways. We'll build UI's with grids and stack panels for layout and explore databinding, templates and triggers. You'll see how to create an application that's logically organized and you can customize both in look and feel on a global basis -either to customize for individual clients or to keep your application looking fresh through future UI fashion changes.

NOTE: I've changed this talk a bit from the one I gave in Denver to include some graphics and simple business appropriate animations.

Presenter:
Kathleen Dollard, Author, Speaker, Trainer, and Coder Kathleen Dollard is a consultant, author, trainer, and speaker, who still makes her living writing code. This experience brings focus to the real problems facing developers. She's been a Microsoft MVP nearly ten years, wrote "Code Generation in Microsoft .NET" (Apress) and has a monthly column in Visual Studio Magazine. She speaks at industry conferences including DevConnections, DevTeach, Software Developers Conference, and DevLink. She's a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and has spoken in over twenty states and four countries.

She's the founder and principal of GenDotNet which is a software consulting company that focuses on development through real world infrastructure code generation and training.

Her passion is helping programmers be smarter in how they develop by learning to use Visual Studio, XML related technologies, .NET languages, code generation, unit testing, and other tools to their full capacity.
She's currently working on improving the uptake of the exciting new technologies Microsoft is emitting, extending code generation, and exploring very complex interrelated systems - especially Windows Workflow and Windows Presentation Foundation. Kathleen lives in Fort Collins and you can contact her at Kathleen@GenDotNet.com

Topics:
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Links:
Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) by Adam Nathan
Code Generation in Microsoft .NET by Kathleen Dollard

What is on the Calendar?

Description:
Check the website for details

Presenter:
Stan Spilman
Fernando Cardenas