Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation – WPF 4/4.5

Module 1: Introduction to WPF

• User interface (UI) and user experience (UX)
• What is WPF?
• Why WPF?
• Tools
• Silverlight
• WPF vs. Windows Forms
• Summary

Module 2: XAML

• What is XAML?
• XAML Rules
• Type Converters
• Markup Extensions
• Reading and Writing XAML
• Summary

Module 3: Basic Concepts

• Logical and Visual Trees
• Dependency Properties
• Attached Properties
• Routed Events
• Attached Events
• Coordinate Systems
• WPF Class Hierarchy
• Summary

Module 4: Layout and Panels

• Layout Basics
• Size and Position
• Margin and Padding
• Alignment and Content Alignment
• LayoutTransform and RenderTransform
• Layout Panels
• Canvas
• StackPanel, DockPanel, WrapPanel
• Grid and GridSplitter
• Summary
• Module 5: Controls (Part I)

• What is a Control?
• Content Controls
• Items Controls
• Range Controls
• Text Controls
• Other Controls
• Summary

Module 6: Application and Windows

• The Application Object
• Application Startup and Shutdown
• Application Events
• Windows
• Dialog Boxes
• Summary

Module 7: Resources

• Binary Resources
• Logical Resources
• Static and Dynamic Resources
• Accessing Resources
• Localization
• Summary

Module 8: Data Binding

• Introduction to Data Binding
• The Binding Type
• The Binding Markup Extension
• Simple Data Binding
• Data Templates
• Data Views
• Live Shaping (.NET 4.5)
• Accessing collections on a non-UI thread (.NET 4.5)
• Binding to static properties (.NET 4.5)
• Value Converters
• Data Validation
• Summary

Module 9: Commanding

• The WPF Command Model
• The ICommand Interface
• Routed Implemented Commands
• Invoking a Command
• Standard Commands
• Custom Commands
• Summary

Module 10: Styles, Triggers and Control Templates

• What is a Style?
• Defining and using a style
• Automatically applying a style
• What is a trigger?
• Property Triggers
• Data Triggers
• Event Triggers
• Basic Control Template
• Enhanced Control Template
• Summary

Module 11: Graphics

• Shapes
• Geometries
• Transforms
• Brushes
• Opacity
• Summary

Module 12: Animation

• Understanding Animation
• Linear Animations
• Storyboards
• Path Animation
• Animation Easing
• Summary

Module 13: Custom Elements

• Custom Element Types
• User Controls
• Custom Controls
• Custom Drawn Elements
• Custom Panels
• Summary

(Module 14: Threading and Asynchronous Programming (Optional

• Multithreading
• Threads and WPF
• The Dispatcher and DispatcherObject
• Updating the UI
• The BackgroundWorker Component
• Asynchronous programming with C# 5.0
• Summary

(Module 15: Interoperability (Optional

• Interoperability Scenarios
• Mixing Windows and Forms
• Windows with Mixed Content
• Summary

(Module 16: Controls (Part II) (Optional

• The ListView
• The TreeView
• Menus
• Toolbars
• Status bars
• Ribbon (.NET 4.5)
• Summary

This guidance is intended for software architects and software developers. To get the most benefit from this course, you should have an understanding of the following technologies:

• Microsoft Visual C# or Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0