Brown Bag Seminars

Windows Presentation Foundation

Revised: 5/24/2011

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Current Seminar Scope:

Brown Bag Seminars (that means you can bring your lunch):
These seminars are devoted to a wide-ranging selection of technical presentations of interest to the participants. We are finishing a seminar on Windows internals this Summer (started last fall) and will continue on with Windows Presentation Foundation. In these seminars, participants will make presentations on a variety of topics. The idea is that we will talk about things we are currently working on or are interested in enough to devote considerable effort to make a good presentation.

Texts and Notes:

This Summer We will be circulating my copy of the texts:

Essential Windows Presentation Foundation, Chris Anderson, Addison-Wesley, 2007
Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed, Adam Nathan, Sams, 2007

You may wish to acquire a copy of your own - the book is excellent. I purchased mine at Barnes and Noble, on Erie Blvd.

Seminar Location: CST 2-129, Time: Fridays 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Schedule - Fall 2007:

Seminar	Presenter	Summer Topics
Presentation #1 Fri, Sep 21	Prashanth Vijayaraghavan	XAML Demystified
Presentation #2 Fri, Sep 28	Orlando Robertson	Important New Concepts in WPF
Presentation #3 Fri, Oct 5	Santosh Singh	Introducing WPF's Controls
Presentation #4 Fri, Oct 12	Kedar Joshi	Sizing, Positioning, and Transforming Elements
Presentation #5 Fri, Oct 19	Kester Marrain	Layout with Panels
Presentation #6 Fri, Oct 26	Tilak Patel	Structuring and Deploying an Application
Presentation #8 Fri, Nov 2	Jim Fawcett	Resources
Presentation #9 Fri, Nov 9	TBD	Data Binding
Presentation #10 Fri, Nov 16	TBD	Styles, Templates, Skins, and Themes
Presentation #11 Fri, Nov 23	TBD	2D Graphics
Presentation #12 Fri, Nov 30	TBD	3D Graphics
Presentation #13 Fri, Dec ?	TBD	Animation
Presentation #14 Fri, Dec ?	TBD	Audio, Video, Speech, and Documents
Presentation #15 Fri, ?	TBD	Interoperability with Win32, Windows Forms, and ActiveX
Presentation #16 Fri, ?	TBD	User Controls and Custom Controls
Presentation #17 Fri, ?	TBD	Layout with Custom Panels

The Seminar starts at 3:00 and will go no-later than 4:30PM, on Fridays.

Past Seminars:

Our current software research

Refactoring to Patterns

.Net CLR Internals

Visual Studio 2005, Beta, C# 2005, Avalon/XAML

Web Services, Web Service Extensions (WSE), Indigo

Security - .Net Framework/ASP.Net/LAMP/Threats

The Ruby interpreter