(Winter 2010)

This ten-meeting instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to build and configure a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) solution. Class provides information on the new WPF standard controls, XAML, control styles and templates, Windows Forms interop, FlowDocuments, 2D rendering, and sound/video media. An overview of 3D support is also provided. This course is intended for application developers who know how to build simple Windows Forms applications in .Net, and how to use the common features of the .Net base class library. Please note that students can be successful in this course without prior knowledge of advanced UI threading, asynchronous programming, building custom controls from scratch, GDI, building Visual Studio add-ins, or custom designers. Prerequisites: Before attending this course, students should have intermediate experience developing applications using .Net 2.0, previous work with Windows Forms is suggested, but not required.

Peter Partch, M.S., MCP, is an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft Windows user mode and kernel mode development. He has been working as a professional software developer since 1983 and has been working exclusively with Windows technologies since 1992. Peter has been teaching classes at UCI since 1997 and has taught: Win32 development using C/C++, MFC, COM development in C++, ATL, .Net Framework, .Net Security (including CAS and the various crypto classes), and Windows Forms. Current classes include: WPF, WCF, WWF, and Silverlight