Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness
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This eLearning video features Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet from LogicBay demoing a prototype they built for 3M. The very cool thing about the app is the browser integration: it is probably the most sophisticated in browser Avalon app created to date. It
also features Arik Cohen from the Avalon (er, Windows Presentation Foundation, aka WPF) team showing off WPF/E: a port of the elearning application to a smart phone. Gnarly!
Karsten Januszewski was the camera guy and interviewer.
Karsten Januszewski was the camera guy and interviewer.
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1) How did you achieve the transistion between pages? From what I can gather, you are using a Navigation window with the background gradient built in. Whenever a new page is navigated to, you fade the old one out and fade the new one in?
2) The WPF/E application that was shown seemed to be completely different than the client application. If it was completely different XAML and C# code, why was it said "this is the same XAML..."?
The first application shown was a WPF application running in the browser. Any element which inherits from UIElement has an opacity property which can be animated. In this case, it looks like the animation was triggered by the button click.
As mentioned above the first application was a WPF app, using the full blown WPF platform. The second one was running on a preview WPF/E platform, so once you realize that its not suprising that they look different.
Plus both platforms will use XAML, but the preview application they showed at the PDC was an application running inside of an ActiveX control using XAML and JavaScript.Which is cool and lends itself to the "everywhere" concept.
Please remember, WPF/E is still in the planning stage. I'm just relaying information given at the session. But that's one of the great things about PDC, we get to show off our ideas and get feedback from everyone.
Just a quick un-educated question. I haven't looked at what the Page element inherits from, so this could very well not be possible. Sorry, I'd do the research tonight, but its 1:00AM and I have to write two midterms tomorrow.
http://www.designerslove.net/2005/10/page-transitions.html
Great demos, but I'm kind of worried that contractors can be certified by getting "training" solely by PDA, websites, etc. I think hands on training and instruction are useful in some cases.
I was under the impression that post-beta1 WBA (what exactly do we call Avalon Express now?) apps now use the existing browser chrome for navigation.
My guess is that IE6 has the back-forward chrome, and IE7 has not (as it provides interfaces for manipulating its own back/forward buttons, so no use of creating own ones). Right?
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