You can build a superb .NET application, perfect your code until it is a work of art and fine-tune your algorithms so that your application is laser quick. But if your UI design sucks your users won't care. Your customers spend countless hours staring at your screens and working with your user interface. For many users, the UI is the application. As a developer, you know that is not true, but most people are very visually oriented and believe otherwise.
WPF represents the first significant change to the Windows graphics engine in over ten years. What is trivial to build with WPF is difficult or impossible in Microsoft's current Winforms technology. The WPF API is chock full of improvements for constructing rich client applications. WPF is hardware accelerated, using the graphics rendering engine in your GPU for faster processing of UI primitives. It is vector based, via Direct3D, which provides truly scalable and resolution independent UIs. WPF makes it easy to integrate video, audio, text, animation and 2D-3D graphics into a seamless montage. WPF also simplifies deployment of your application with the XAML Brower Application (XBAP) and/or ClickOnce models.
Since WPF is an extension of .NET 2.0 you can tap into the full power of the framework; which provide the most comprehensive, rich, and flexible programming model for developers wishing to architect and create smart client applications.
During this workshop you’ll study of the pillars of WPF, experience the joys of XAML programming, and explore the fantastic rendering capabilities of WPF. You will learn how to develop applications with a professional user interface that is powerful and easy for end-users to use.