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• Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!

  People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom training from companies like Pluralsight , Wintellect , Developmentor and IdentityMine , and online tutorials like those from Nibbles or lynda.com . I'm excited to announce another choice today: we've made available a three-day virtual training course that covers all aspects of WPF as part of MIX University, and it's completely free ! This course was delivered here on campus in Redmond earlier this year for a small invited audience, and as we drew up the syllabus and speaker list, we realized we had something special on our hands. You'll hear a keynote from Ian Ellison-Taylor , the general manager responsible for WPF, Silverlight and client platform tools; introductory sessions on core WPF topics from external luminaries like Ian Griffiths Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 5:49 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, screencast, events, silverlight, blend, lab, training, presentation, cider

• WPF TypeCon Workshop Material

  Thanks to all who attended TypeCon's Fonts and Typography in WPF workshop. We had a great time chatting with you all Thursday morning. In the below zip file you can find some of the material we went over in the lab. This includes: 1. The extremely useful WPF Layout and Font Quick Reference which lists and describes common typography and text layout related properties. 2. The completed version of the reflective textbox lab 3. Mikhail Leonov's presentation on WPF font model. Also here are a couple links that may be helpful: WPF Typography SDK page: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742190.aspx The Sample OpenType Font Pack: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms746705.aspx WPF forums: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=119&siteid=1 -Christine Ahonen, Chris Han, Mikhail Leonov, and Simon Daniels Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 4:34 PM from WPF Text Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, lab, TypeCon

• WPF Hands-on-Lab: Build an Outlook 2007 UI Clone

  I got wind today of a great hands-on lab that demonstrates the steps needed to create a high-quality user interface for business applications using WPF and Expression Blend. Two engineers from Microsoft Switzerland, Ronnie Saurenmann and Ruihua Jin, have put together this 90-page lab that starts at File / New Project and ends with a facsimile of the Outlook 2007 user interface. Along the way they demonstrate the use of data binding, templates, styles, and triggers; show how you can customize the ListView control to create a message listing; show how template binding works, and show how you can use code to customize and sort the list view. There's lots to learn here - if you're wondering if WPF is just about data visualization or consumer-orientated graphical applications, this will help persuade you that it's also a great platform for building more traditional business software. Download the lab manual here ; the source project you'll need to complete the lab can be found here . Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:57 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, visual studio, blend, lab