Month: June 2006

The brand new WPF community website is live! Check out the aggregate feed for WPF blogs, another feed for forum posts, a sample gallery (you can download samples or post your own), and news and announcements about WPF. We hope that this will be a great resource for WPF developers and designers, and we’d love your feedback on it.

Here’s a cheat sheet if you want to attend all of the WPF talks at TechEd:

Date	Time	Code	Title	Speaker
Mon 6/12	9:00am-10:15am	DEV 202	WPF: Introduction	Rob Relyea
Mon 6/12	5:00pm-6:15pm	DEVTLC 05	WPF: Interop with Win32 and MFC	Nick Kramer
Tue 6/13	2:45pm-4:00pm	DEVTLC 09	WPF: Data Visualization	Kevin Moore, Beatriz Costa, & Robert Ingebretsen
Tue 6/13	4:30pm-5:45pm	DEVTLC 10	WPF: XAML Browser Applications and the Partial Trust Sandbox	Karen Corby & Ashish Shetty
Wed 6/14	10:15am-11:30am	DEV 326	WPF: Building Rich Content Experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation	Chris Han
Thu 6/15	9:45am-11:00am	DEV 336	WPF: Creating Windows and Web Applications with WPF	Lauren Lavoie
Thu 6/15	1:00pm-2:15pm	DEV 338	WPF: Building Data-Driven Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation	Kevin Moore
Fri 6/16	2:45pm-4:00pm	DEV 349	WPF: Build Beautiful Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation	Robert Ingebretsen

There are going to be three chalk talks covering WPF content as well (one on data visualization, one on writing XBAPs, and one on interop). I will update this post with the schedule for those talks when I know it.

Update 6/12/2006 7:47am (PDT): Added the chalk talks to the table above.

TechEd 2006 began tonight in Boston with a keynote featuring Bob Muglia and Chris Capossela. There was a lot of energy in the room, and a set of very cool videos spoofing the show “24” (which seemed to be filmed primarily inside of the Seattle Library!)

I’ll be working the Windows Presentation Foundation demo station and labs throughout the week, so please stop by and say hello. I’ll be giving a talk on Thursday morning at 9:45 discussing application model stuff, and how to build applications for both Windows and the Web.

Details for my talk are as follows:

DEV336 – (WinFX) Windows Presentation Foundation: Creating Windows and Web Applications with WPF
Learn how to use Windows Presentation Foundation application-level primitives for data management, system interaction, hosting, and UI to create great client applications. See how to create both standalone client applications and rich browser applications that can take advantage of these services. Gain knowledge that will help you make application-level decisions, such as when your application should be hosted in the browser or a standalone window, whether or not to write a navigation-based application, and how to manage application data and settings for various scenarios.

Timeslot: 6/15/2006 9:45 – 11:00

I hope to see you there!

Here’s a list of a few WPF samples that I want to write soon (in no particular order):

1. Building a FileUpload control
2. Removing/restyling the NavigationWindow UI
3. Displaying HTML inside of your WPF application
4. Using URL arguments to enable “deep linking” for XBAPs
5. Using Popup as a dialog in XBAPs

I’m posting the list here so that I don’t forget. :) But also, if you have any feedback — e.g. you really want to see the NavigationWindow UI sample before the HTML sample or there’s some other application model-oriented sample that you want to see before any of these — please let me know.

I won’t get to these until after TechEd Boston (next week!), but if you are blocked on any WPF questions in the meantime, feel free to contact me (as usual).