WinFX Wizard announcement
With this post, I just want to present you a new concept to design wizards. Everyone knows wizards and massively uses them because they make our "e-life" easier but in the most of time they are not very fun. Always next...next..next...finish without any attractive features. So I'm pleased to show the first works about our future Wizard Framework on WinFX.
The figure below shows you a preview of the default style applied to a sample created with the WizardFramework.
[Figure 1. Wizard Preview]
How will it work ? The UI is built on WPF (of course) but this time we're trying to cross it with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Indeed, you will be able to define your activities based on the WizardFramework's ones. But I cannot say anymore for now. WF is the Raskal's favorite job and he will explain the interaction between the two technologies in the next post...
For the time being, appreciate the wizard in action:
The picture above is good but a video is better. In this first video, the wizard define 4 steps, I first navigate to the next steps and also to a previous step in order to see all the animations. So do not wait anymore and pump up the volume...
Download the video (medium quality because of the size)
Download the codec if necessary (XviD MPEG-4)