Building Data Visualization Applications with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

This session will be heavily demo focused to accentuate how the power of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) can be used to visualize data. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows. It provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media and documents. WPF uses vector based graphics rendering which results in better graphics and presentation for an application. WPF also has other features such as layout, styling and data binding which, when you mix with interactivity, enables scenarios such as interactive data visualization. When you put all this together you have a unified API for various presentation components, such as 2D and 3D documents and declarative programming through XAML, which is a powerful platform for data visualization that can be used to really "light-up" your enterprise applications.