Designing with WPF

[alicook604]

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is next generation graphics platform that is added in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5. It lets you in order to construct advanced user interfaces (UI) that incorporate documents, media, 2D and 3D graphics, animations, and web like characteristics. Built on the .NET framework 3.0 and 3.5, WPF provides a managed environment for developing the applications using the Windows operating system. Like other features of the .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5, WPF is available for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. WPF added lot of flexibility and usability to the client application development.

 

[mantrais593]

Is it Microsoft products or Services? or another company developed this Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)??

 

[mikethomas01]

I'm thinking about making a simple map control in WPF, and am thinking about the design of the basic map interface and am wondering if anyone has some good advice for this.

1. Base canvas for lat/long calculations, control positioning, Z-Index stacking.
2. Multiple Grid elements to represent the maps at different zoom levels. Using a grid to make tiling easier.
3. Map objects with positional data.
4. Map controls (zoom slider, overview, etc).
5. Scroll viewer with mouse move events for panning and zooming.

 

[vgkumar]

nice post , thanks
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