Design to Blend: How to Express Your Creative Self with WPF and Silverlight
Speaker: Dale Jones
Real World project deconstruction showing the new role designers have in the development of Windows application UI.
With the introduction of Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, designers have a new sandbox to play in. Microsoft has done its part by developing some
pretty impressive tools for designers that begin to blur the lines of traditional software design/development process. We will discusss real world projects, show how to use
new and old tools together, and discuss where and how designers can start contributing to projects in ways that were not possible before.
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WPF: Beyond Styles and Templates - Advanced Concepts
Speaker: Josh Wagoner
Windows Presentation Foundation provides a wealth of features and functionality. There are numerous features that a developer can take advantage of to speed development time.
In this talk we'll discuss using several areas of WPF in creative ways. Topics to be covered will include
Using attached Dependency Properties to add behavior to elements.
Using Routed Commands to enable a great designer/developer workflow with custom controls.
Using the ICommand interface outside of Routed Commands framework.
Using the Dispatcher when loading data on a background thread.
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