Overview
 To build great compelling, responsive, secure smart client applications with WPF you need to master not just the basic building blocks of WPF but how to compose the rest of the application that sits behind the façade of the user interface. You need to understand user interface presentation patterns to have good separation between your UI definition and the supporting logic code. You need to have loose coupling between different pieces of functionality in your application so they can be independently developed, maintained, tested, and deployed. You need to be able to communicate between the loosely coupled parts of your application with events and commands. You need to secure the application, collect credentials from the user, authenticate them, authorize actions and authenticate against remote services, databases, and other external resources. You need to manage concurrent and asynchronous work in the client and deal with the threading issues of the UI context. You need to retrieve and update data, even cache it locally for offline use, and synchronize that data when you go back online. You also need to make calls to services and be notified on events outside of your application, such as changes to back end data. And finally, you have to deploy your application.
Obviously, there is much more to WPF development than just adding elements to a UI and creating styles to make the UI look pretty. This class is all about how to apply WPF in the context of a modern application, the patterns and techniques required addressing the issues above. The class starts by reviewing the key building blocks of WPF, how and when to best use them. Next, you will learn how to build composite UI applications with dependency injection, modularity, dynamic UI composition, loosely coupled commands and events. The class then gets into the system issues of handling multithreading and concurrency, securing your application, and making client calls to services. Data caching and synchronization are covered next, followed by working with cloud services and pub/sub service notifications of back end events.
The focus of the class is on how to properly apply WPF and tie it with the rest of your application, rather than the technology itself, enabling you to successfully build the rest of your smart client application so that it is testable, maintainable, extensible, and flexible.
The material presented includes IDesign's original techniques and utilities and goes well beyond anything you can find in conventional sources. The class is a unique opportunity to learn how to best apply WPF from IDesign, who was part of the strategic design review process for WPF, participated in the architecture and design of the application blocks. .
Format
The class uses a combination of frontal presentations, code demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises to reinforce all of the concepts presented. The demos provide a code library to refer back to when building your own applications, and the labs help cement the key learning elements of the class using step-by-step procedures to accomplish the tasks covered.
Target Audience
Any .NET developer or architect responsible for building smart client applications with WPF will benefit from the training. Some exposure to the basics of WPF concepts is helpful. WCF familiarity is a plus.
Duration
5 day intense days.
Offering
Available as an on-site or public class. |