Overview/Description
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) allows you to incorporate data from multiple sources into the user interface. This course details how WPF not only binds controls to data, but also converts, validates, and formats data in a variety of ways. Specific areas covered include binding to elements, using multiple bindings, utilizing ADO.NET data objects, formatting the display of data, and also data conversion, validation, filtering, sorting, and grouping. This course is one of a series in the SkillSoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Technology Specialist (TS): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Presentation Foundation Application Development exam (70-502). Passing this exam will earn the learner the MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation Applications certification.
Target Audience
All organizations or individual consultants who are using or intend to use the .NET Framework 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic 2008 to develop Windows Presentation Foundation applications; corporate employees, consultants, and university or college students who are preparing for the associated Technology Specialist: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Presentation Foundation Application Development exam (70-502).
Prerequisites
A good knowledge of Visual Basic 2005 or 2008 and familiarity with Visual Studio, having a minimum one year’s experience working with these technologies.