Ultimate Data VisualizationExperience with WPF

Walter Wong

MVP (Visual Developer – Security)

Email - Walter_wws@hotmail.com

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27th June 2009

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DEMOWhat is Windows Presentation Foundation

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Agenda• WPF Controls

• WPF Interoperability

• Workflow Foundation Integration

• XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents

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WPF Controls• Visual Studio’s Control is for Developers

– Boring

– Using XAML to customize the control

• Expression Blend’s Controls is for Designer

– Interactive

– Using wizard to customize the control

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3rd Party Controls

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DEMOVisual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2

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DEMOKevin Moore’s WPF Bag-O-Trick Controls

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WPF Interoperability

• Are you going to re-write the whole application in WPF?

• Calculate the ROI before implement WPF

• Fortunately WPF provide multiple ways of Interoperability

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WPF Interoperability

• Interoperability choices

– Windows Form

– Microsoft Office Suite

• 2 ways of interoperability

– WPF controls in WinForm application

– WinForm controls in WPF application

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DEMOWPF Interoperability

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XPS Documents

• XML Paper Specification (XPS)

• Is a subset of XAML

• Provide API to assist users in document workflow

– Authoring

– Viewing

– Storing

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Benefits of using XPS

• Microsoft Office’s users can save the documents as XPS

• Visual Studio provide the API to save the Word documents

in XPS format

• Blend and Visual Studio provide the XPS Viewer control

(known as “Document Viewer”) for developers

• Document Viewer is ReadOnly

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DEMOXPS Document

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Conclusion

• Tones of WPF controls to enrich your application

development experience

• Provide a seamless path to upgrade your existing

WinForm application

• Creative way to visualize your workflow

• Using XPS API to visualize your documents

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Resources - Bloghttp://spaces.live.com/walterwws

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Resources - Pagecasthttp://www.pageflakes.com/walterw

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Walter Wong

MVP (Visual Developer – Security)

Email - Walter_wws@hotmail.com

Blog - http://spaces.live.com/walterwws

Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/walterw

Pageflakes – http://www.pageflakes.com/walterw