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Delivering the Art of Software
WPF & Silverlight: Data Visualization, NUI, and Next Generation of User Experience
Tim HuckabyFounder / Chairman, InterKnowlogyFounder / CEO, Actus SoftwareMicrosoft RD & MVP
Level: Beginner / Intermediate
About…InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com)• Tim Huckaby, Founder/Chairman ([email protected])
– Custom Application Development / Consulting / Software & Systems Engineering Firm headquartered in Carlsbad, CA
– Design, Architect, Build and Deploy Enterprise Class Applications – Industry Experts:
Most of the employees are published, MVPs, RD, Speakers, etc.Microsoft .NET Application development since 2000Microsoft .NET Rich Client Pioneers / Industry LeadersMicrosoft Touch Application Development Leaders (Surface / Windows 7 / Silverlight 3)Information Worker Solutions (VSTO & SharePoint)Integration / Messaging, B2B / B2C, Wireless / Mobility Leading Edge: Surface, WPF, Silverlight, Win7 touch, SharePoint, VSTOCutting Edge Solutions on emerging Microsoft technologiesLargest Client: Microsoft
Actus Software (www.Actus-Software.com)• Tim Huckaby, Founder/CEO ([email protected])
•Software Product Company, Coming soon…
Data Visualization: WPF & XAML…and Silverlight…and Surface..and “the phone”
Session Objective: To get you excited by showing you “what you can do” so that you start doing it.
Why you need Rich Client Applications
Rich Client Technology Roadmap
Session Objectives And Agenda
Demos, demos, demos!...
What this session is NOT: a “Stare at C#” Session
About the Computer I am Using Today…
• Acer Aspire 1420P• Give away “free” to all attendees at the PDC• One year old…• Price in October-2009: $420• Price in November-2009: $350
Delivering the Art of Software
• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP
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DEMO
Delivering the Art of Software
Surface WPF 3D:The Scripps Research InstituteVitruView
VIDEO• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP
Touch Capable Computing Devices are Not New
Past Future(Now)
Present
1972: PLATO IV Touch Screen Terminal
The Microsoft Surface
Windows 7 Multi-touch
Delivering the Art of Software
What is Relatively New is: Inexpensive Touch Capable,
Non Proprietary Hardware A Multi-Touch Capable
Windows OS A Consistent Multi-Touch API
for .NET across 3 Windows Hardware/Software Platforms
Developer Productivity in Touch Capable Apps
The Forecast of Touch Capability in Every New Computing Device in the Short Term
Delivering the Art of Software
Tim HuckabyFounder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy
Founder / CEO, Actus Software
Microsoft RD & MVP
Surface WPF 3D:The Scripps Research InstituteVitruView
VIDEO
History of Surface
2003 The first
prototype is presented to Bill Gates
2004A dedicated group is formed,
and more than 85 prototypes are developed
2007Microsoft Surface is unveiled to the world
2001The concept of an interactive table is born
2005The look and feel of Surface is finalized
2011?
Delivering the Art of Software
Separates the front-end from the back-end
Simple declarative programming language suitable for constructing and initializing .NET Objects
Usually the most concise way to represent user interfaces (or other hierarchies of objects)
Doesn’t need a compile to render
The language that almost all Silverlight related tools emit
What the heck is XAML?
Delivering the Art of Software
DEMO
Complex XAML
Tim HuckabyFounder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy
Founder / CEO, Actus Software
Microsoft RD & MVP
Declarative Programming: WPF & Silverlight
• XAML replaces code• Attributes control Layout and Style• Event handlers wired-up in XAML• Declarative Data Binding
WPF (Windows XP and above)Silverlight (Cross Platform for the Browser)SurfaceWPF 4.0 Touch (Windows 7)Windows® Phone 7 Series
The Big 5 “XAML-based” Technologies
Delivering the Art of Software
Tim HuckabyFounder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy
Founder / CEO, Actus Software
Microsoft RD & MVP
WPF, Surface, & Silverlight
Library of CongressWin7 WPF multi-touchSilverlight
DEMO
Delivering the Art of Software
• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP
WPF, Surface, & Silverlight
Library of CongressWin7 WPF multi-touchSilverlight
DEMO
Silverlight… “WPF Light”
• Interactive experiences for devices, PC, & Mac platforms (and others…)
• Strict subset of Windows Presentation Foundation• Lightweight download (4.2mbs)• Programming model uses XAML + Jscript + WPF• Access to WPF tooling• Touch Capability in Version 3.0
Lightweight WPF runtime
<XAML> <Button Width="100px"> OK <Button.Background> LightBlue </Button.Background> </Button></XAML>
WPF-based Tools
Delivering the Art of Software
Silverlight
43Things.comInterKnowlogy Wish 43 WP7 Wish43
Tim HuckabyFounder, InterKnowlogy & Actus
SoftwareMicrosoft RD & MVP
DEMO
Delivering the Art of Software
Eclipsys CorporationSilverlight 3 - Enterprise Visibility Real-time Hospital Operations
• Tim Huckaby• Founder, InterKnowlogy & Actus
Software• Microsoft RD & MVP
CUSTOMER
Silverlight
WPF/SL – how does it work?
• Built on Top of Direct 3D– Converted to 3D triangles, textures and other Direct3D
objects & then rendered by hardware– Benefits of hardware acceleration & performance due to
work being off-loaded to GPUs (unlike GDI based systems)– Ensures the maximum benefit of new hardware
and drivers– Software rendering pipeline as fallback
Why WPF and Silverlight?
• The GDI & USER subsystems were introduced in Windows 1.0 in 1985
• OpenGL – Early 90s• DirectX – 1995
• Goal: Overcome the limits of GDI+ & USER with the productivity of .NET
Audience Participation Time1. Does WPF & SL enable me to do something I
couldn’t have done before?– No. Unless you factor in time & money…– And would like to do more with less…
2. Is DirectX dead?– No. It is more applicable to advanced 3D developers writing hard-core “twitch” games.
3. Are Winforms dead?– No. …but it will not be advanced; the last version was 2.0 in .NET 2005.– WPF / Winforms Integration is simple– Windows 98 Supports WinForms
4. Does WPF run better on Vista & Win 7 than on XP?
– Yes.– 3D objects only get anti-aliasing on Windows Vista or Later– Non-rectangular windows only get hardware acceleration on Vista or later– Vista & Win7 have a driver model that helps with resource contention
5. Does Silverlight trump all this other WPF Stuff?– One would think so with all the marketing dollars that are being thrown at it….– But, in Reality the answer is “No” and it makes solution architecture more difficult than ever.
6. Does HTML5 trump everything XAML?– Doubtful…but, there is wild speculation right now..– The Next 5 years are going to be “interesting”…
WPF: Where to go Next Free Resources
• WindowsClient.net - this is the official Microsoft community portal for WPF development, and is chock full of great resources such as the...
• Learn WPF page - this page links to podcasts, labs, and the very popular "how do I?" videos
• MIX University's WPF Bootcamp - this is a full 3-day video training course on WPF, in which expert instructors guide you from the surface into the depths of the technology stack
Where to go next (WPF)
• Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF)
• by Adam Nathan, Daniel Lehenbauer
• Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• by Chris Anderson
Silverlight: Where to go NextFree Resources
• http://Silverlight.net - this is the official Microsoft community portal for Silverlight development
• http://www.Microsoft.com/Silverlight - This is the official product site
• http://developer.windowsphone.com – Free Windows Phone Developer Tools (1 download)
Where to go Next – Silverlight Books
Silverlight 4 Unleashed
by Laurent Bugnion (September 6, 2010)
Essential Silverlight 3
by Ashraf Michail
Silverlight In Action
by Chad Campbell and
John Stockton
Summary• We are at the Edge of the Rich Client
revolution• HTML is sufficient for Web Sites, but mostly
insufficient for Data Visualization software applications
• The Tools, Plumbing and platforms for Rich Client, touch based computing are powerful and available
• Within a short time frame computers with touch capability will be the norm.
• The .NET stack for Rich Client & Touch Based Software (Surface, WPF & Silverlight) is elegant and powerful
• The Concepts of NUI & Data Visualization change the way we design and build software
Tim Huckaby
• More info on InterKnowlogy:– www.InterKnowlogy.com – Silverlight.InterKnowlogy.c
om
• More info on Actus Software:– Coming soon….
• About Tim Huckaby…– Founder/Chairman, InterKnowlogy– Founder/CEO, Actus Software– Microsoft® Regional Director – Southern
California– Microsoft® .NET Partner Advisory Council
Founder / Member– Microsoft® MVP - .NET – INETA Speaker – International .NET Users
Group Association– Board Member: Association for Competitive
Technology– Author / Speaker
• Contact me: Tim Huckaby
E-mail: [email protected]
• Phone: Office: 760-444-8640Mobile: 619 990 9200
Blog: http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/timhuckabyFaceBook:http://www.facebook.com/Tim.Huckaby.CarlsbadLinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timhuckaby