September 04, 2008
SSDotNet Meeting Sept. 11 / WPF and Databinding with Walt Ritscher
Please join us on Thursday, September 11th, for our next South Sound DotNet meeting featuring Walt Ritscher on WPF and Databinding.
Presentation Summary
Once again Microsoft has created a new data-binding model for developers. This new binding framework permeates every corner of WPF and provides a simple and consistent way to synchronize elements and data. Any WPF element that implements a dependency property is bindable to a data-source. You can create data charts by binding shapes to an XML file or enhance your UI by binding a slider control to the current location in a media file. In WPF most of your binding can be written declaratively with XAML which simplifies the binding process. In this session you’ll learn the four cornerstones of WPF binding , ponder the BindingExtension element and see how to handle binding errors. I’ll explain how to handle data validation and show how to convert your data with custom type converters.
Speaker Bio
Walt Ritscher has trained thousands of corporate developers during the last ten years. An active speaker, his teaching schedule has taken him throughout the world providing developer training at corporations, universities, and software conferences. He has collaborated on several books and videos published for the developer market including early adopter .Net courses at Microsoft Press. Walt is currently consulting and teaching .NET, Silverlight and WPF classes for Wintellect. Walt's industry expertise has placed him on various national technology advisory boards. He is also deeply involved in the local developer community — founding the .NET Developers Association in Redmond, WA. Walt has accumulated plenty of experience as a developer —is currently a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the Silverlight Insiders and WPF Disciples. As a web programmer he has worked numerous projects including; EPA sites and the Microsoft Community Starter Kit.
Walt blogs at WPFWonderland and previously at Thinking About Code before WPF seduced him during this past year.
Meeting Specifics
Sept. 11, 7 - 9 pm
Olympia Center (222 Columbia NW)
All attendees are eligible for the prize drawings. Past prizes have included technical books, passes to Devscovery, copies of Visual Studio, Vista, Office 2007 and more.
Don't forget to let your friends and co-workers know about this meeting. Direct them to www.ssdotnet.org for more information.
Julie's book is available for pre-order
Check it out, with final cover art and verbage and available for pre-order: Programming Entity Framework by Julia Lerman
She's been working on this book for a year or so (I'm sure it feels like her whole life at this point) and I can attest to the quality of it having read about half of it already in my role as technical reviewer. Her job is being smart enough to pull a ton of information into a tight package; mine is to pick apart her sample code until it's smooth like buttah. And I'm not the only reviewer, obviously. She's got a lot of very smart people checking this out from every angle. So, if you're interested in data oriented applications and figuring out what Microsoft is up to with Entity Framework, put this one on your wishlist.
