Pavan Podila
Thursday,
April 10, 2008 - 6:15 PM
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Visual tree is one of the core concepts of the WPF framework. All things visible
in a WPF application are objects from the Visual tree. In this talk I'll give a
quick overview of the Visual Tree and then get into interesting ways of
manipulating it. We will also look into the styling and templating aspects of
visuals. The ideas presented here should be immediately useful to
custom-control developers and application developers in general. The session
will be very hands-on with cool demos and live coding! The techniques discussed
here were used in my blog posts on ElementFlow, GlassWindow, Drag 'n' Drop with
attached properties, Genie Effect, etc.
Speaker Bios
Pavan Podila has worked on a wide variety of UI
technologies with current focus on WPF/Silverlight, Flash/Flex and DHTML. He
has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science with specialization in
Graphics and Image Processing. He has been working with .Net since 2004 and WPF
since 2005. In the past he has worked with Java Swing, Eclipse plugins, AJAX UI
frameworks and Trolltech Qt. His primary interests are in 2D/3D Graphics, Data
Visualization, UI architecture and computational art. He blogs actively on http://blog.pixelingene.com.