Module 2

Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 and WPF

Version 4

Module Overview

• What's New in Visual Studio 2010?

• What's New in WPF Version 4?

Lesson 1: What's New in Visual Studio 2010?

• Understanding New Features in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE

• Understanding New Features in Managed Languages

Understanding New Features in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE

New IDE features:

•Appearance and behavior

•Exploring code

•Debugging

•Project capabilities

•Test-driven development

•Start Page

•Extension manager

•New Project dialog box

•Help Viewer

Understanding New Features in Managed Languages

Visual C#:

•Named and optional arguments

•Dynamic support

•Indexed properties and optional ref modifiers

•Type equivalence support for simplified deployment

Visual Basic:

•Auto-implemented properties

•Implicit line continuation

•Collection initializers

•Single-statement and multi-statement lambda expressions

•Type equivalence support for simplified deployment

Visual F#:

•New functional programming language

Lesson 2: What's New in WPF Version 4?

• Introducing the WPF Designer

• Understanding the New Visual Features in WPF Version 4

• Understanding the New Additional Features in WPF Version 4

Introducing the WPF Designer

Zoom control

Design view XAML view

Toolbox

Understanding the New Visual Features in WPF Version 4

New Controls Visual State Manager

Graphics and Animation Text

Understanding the New Additional Features in WPF Version 4

New WPF version 4 features:

•Touch and manipulation

UIElement, UIElement3D, and ContentElement now accept touch input

•Binding:

•Bind to commands on the InputBinding interface

•Bind to dynamic objects

•Bind to the Run.Text property

•XAML browser applications

Introduces HTML-XBAP script interop and full-trust deployment

•WPF and Windows

New types in the System.Windows.Shell namespace for Windows 7 features

•WPF Designer

Several new features and improvements in the WPF Designer

Lab: Guided Walkthrough of Visual Studio 2010 and XAML

• Exercise 1: Guided Walkthrough of Visual Studio 2010

• Exercise 2: Guided Walkthrough of the XAML Editor

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Estimated time: 45 minutes

Lab Scenario

You have just received and installed your new copy of Visual Studio 2010, and you have been asked to familiarize yourself with the new IDE, including the new windows and features that the IDE provides.

Lab Review

Review Questions

• Which Visual Studio 2010 feature enables you to add, remove, enable, and disable Visual Studio extensions?

• Which feature of the XAML editor enables you to view the XAML design surface and the XAML code at the same time?

Module Review and Takeaways

• Review Questions