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Markus Egger - Next-Generation Applications on the Microsoft Platform

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Next-Generation Applications on the Microsoft Platform - Markus Egger

A revolutionary new generation of applications is almost upon us. Truly revolutionary new applications don’t appear just every day. Usually, there are few and far between, but over the next months and years, we will see an entire wave of next-gen apps . The last, and arguably the only such wave has occurred during the move from DOS to Windows. During that wave of revolutionary changes, both the development approach as well as the look and feel of applications changed drastically. For the first time on the Microsoft platform, we abandoned relatively simple compiler environments and started to program with a large and well defined API that was larger than just a single compiler’s set of features. We also started building applications that used common infrastructure and user interface paradigms on a broad basis. Code reuse turned from a dream into (albeit limited) reality.

Today, users understand applications a lot better. Their ability to use applications as well as their expectations have grown drastically. No longer does the print button have to look exactly the same on each application. We have well established application fundamentals that users and developers know and understand, and the time has come to innovate on that foundation, without invalidating it. The time has also come to enter the next generation as we must handle huge amounts of data in large and sophisticated systems. Integration has progressed to an unprecedented level. Building a “maintainable and scalable application” today has a very different meaning than it did three or five years ago.

Next generation applications will look better, be more intuitive to use, communicate information better, they will be easier to maintain and administer, they scale better, and they will work together in an even more integrated fashion. They will make us forget that there once was a difference between Windows, Web, and Mobile Device applications. They will allow us to interact with computers in ways that were previously the realm of science-fiction or the movies. And best of all: You will be able to build these applications too, using technologies and tools that are almost upon us.

Markus Egger - Building Powerful Interfaces with WinForms and WPF (formally "Avalon")

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Building Powerful Interfaces with WinForms and WPF (formally "Avalon")

User interfaces are a very important part of any application. After all, interfaces are the only part of the application the user can see and “touch.” With Windows “Longhorn” and Avalon (which will also be available on Windows XP), the user interface layer will undergo a major change.

This session provides a preview of Avalon and how to use it to build more powerful user interfaces.

This session also provides information about how to preserve current investments in WinForms applications and how to combine the two technologies.