WPF Advanced Topics

By Ian Griffiths
This course covers more advanced topics in Windows Presentation Foundation, including printing, threading, and interop
Course info
Level
Advanced
Updated
Oct 28, 2008
Duration
2h 44m
Table of contents
Reusable UI
Reusable UI 0m Resource Reuse 3m Template Reuse 3m Xaml File Reuse 1m Xaml with Codebehind 5m UserControl 3m Xaml: One per Class 1m Runtime Xaml Parsing 1m Custom Elements 4m Custom Controls 0m API Considerations 1m Properties 1m Commands 1m Events: Defining 1m Events: Handling 1m Contract With Templates 8m Themes 4m Designer Integration 1m Designer Extensibility Options 0m Metadata Providers 0m Summary 1m
Printing
Printing 0m XPS 12m XpsDocumentWriter 1m Simple Printing 8m Multiple Pages 0m Visuals Collator 1m DocumentPaginator 2m Multi-page XPS 3m Asynchronous Printing 1m PrintTicket 1m PrintDialog 1m Queues and Servers 1m Summary 0m
Styles
Styles 1m Styles and Properties 0m Resources 2m Extending Styles 1m Style vs Local Properties 2m Triggers 0m Animation Triggers (Properties) 1m Animation Triggers (Events) 0m Items Container Style 5m Styles, Templates, and Controls 4m Summary 0m
Threading and Services
Threading and Services 0m Responsive UI 2m WPF Threading Model 3m The Golden Threading Rule 0m The Golden Responsiveness Rule 1m Resolving the Rules 1m Async Work 9m DispatcherPriority 2m DispatcherOperation 4m SynchronizationContext 2m Asynchronous Options 1m v1 Asynchronous Pattern 5m Event-based Asynchronous Pattern 3m Thread Pool 1m Create Your Own Thread 3m Data Binding and Threading 8m WCF and v1 Async Pattern 1m WCF and Data Binding 1m Summary 1m
Interop
Interoperability 1m Mixing UI Technologies 1m WPF and HWNDs 3m Interop Not Free 2m Limitations of Interop 3m Clipping 2m Z Order 1m Animation 1m Opacity Property 1m Pseudo Transparency 2m Multiple Top-Level Windows 2m Input Differences 0m Interop Combinations 2m Win32 Outside 1m Win32 Inside 0m HwndHost Keyboard Handling 0m Message Pumps 1m Windows Forms Outside 3m Windows Forms Inside 2m Windows Forms and Layout 1m Ambient Properties 1m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Advanced
Updated
Oct 28, 2008
Duration
2h 44m
Description

This course covers more advanced topics in Windows Presentation Foundation, including printing, threading, and interop.

About the author
Ian Griffiths
About the author

Ian is an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.

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