CANCELLED - AVALON tonight
Hi Folks,
Just got a call from Rob Burke to apologies but he has ruptured his ear
drum and will not be able to present tonight. Seemingly he was on
his way to Galway but his balance has been affected and he sends his
apologies. I hope this does not cause you too much
inconvenience.
This event will be rescheduled at a later date.
Regards, Caroline.
087-9677199
Raising the Stakes with Avalon, the Windows Presentation Foundation- Robert Burke, Microsoft Ireland
Description:
Why should you care about adding a groundbreaking User
Experience to your applications? Answering that question (in
style!) is where we’ll begin, and this developer-oriented presentation
will proceed on a tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF),
formerly codenamed Avalon. WPF allows you to leverage the power
of your local PC and managed languages (including C# /Visual Basic.NET)
to provide a unified framework for next-generation user interface,
media, documents, and even 3D graphics. Until WPF, incorporating
those concepts has effectively been the dark art of the game
development shop. No more!
We’ll look at the WPF unified architecture, and then dive into
several specific developer concepts you’ll need to know to get started
building applications. We’ll explore the declarative markup
language XAML and how it maps to your code, and show how it is being
used to facilitate tools that will bring designers into the development
picture. We’ll look at the concepts of Styles and data binding
for your controls. We’ll move through animation, talk about
interoperability with classic Windows Forms, and we’ll even get a
glimpse at adding video and 3D.
Finally, the presentation will conclude with links to useful
resources for getting started with WPF, hooking into the community, and
learning more.
Bio:Robert Burke is a member of the
Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft Ireland. In his
previous life, he was a Research Associate in the MindGames group at
Dublin’s Media Lab Europe, where he was developer and lead architect of
Symphony, a framework built with .NET which was used for everything
from a brain-computer interface to performance art pieces.
To book your place please send an email to contact@itag.ie
Regards, Caroline.