Foundation Engineering

Aero works on almost all the new configurations, it will be harder to get the earliest. 128MB RAM graphics card compatible with AGP 4x (or higher) operating systems available for DirectX 9 graphics with a minimum resolution of 1024 x 768 32 bit color. The theme Windows Aero is the Aero theme with all the 3D effects and transparency. This is only available if your graphics configuration allows and is the theme that Windows takes more system resources. It may then be interesting to change the subject by a second theme with Aero graphics effects and therefore a little less lighter. To quickly change the subject, click simultaneously Ctrl + Shift + F9. Press these buttons again to call the first theme.

Graphic Services

Windows Presentation Foundation engine

Aero

• All graphics (including desktop items like Windows) are Direct3D applications.
  • The goal is to provide an integrated means for displaying graphics and more advanced graphics features.
  • Routing the graphics through Direct3D allows Windows to offload graphics tasks to the GPU is on the graphics card in the computer. This reduces the workload on the unit's mainframe processing.
  • Support for vector graphics, which will allow scaling without loss.
  • Supports 3D model rendering and interaction in 2D applications.
  • Interactive 2D content can be overlaid on 3D surfaces in native mode. 9

Interoperability

Windows Presentation Foundation engine

Aero

• WPF provides interoperability with Win32: Via hosting, you can use Windows Presentation Foundation in the existing Win32 code, or you can use the Win32 code in Windows Presentation Foundation. 10
• Interoperability with Windows Forms is also possible through the use of classes and ElementHost WindowsFormsHost.

Media Services

• WPF provides shape primitives for 2D graphics with a built-in set of brushes, pens, geometries, and transforms.
• The 3D capabilities of WPF are a subset of all features provided by Direct3D. However, WPF provides tighter integration with other functions such as user interface (UI), documents and media. This allows for 3D UI, 3D documents, and 3D media.
• There is support for image formats most common.
• WPF supports video formats WMV, MPEG and some AVI files.
• WPF supports time-based animations, unlike the approach based on the image. This delink the speed of the animation of how the system works.
• Text rendering is supported with ClearType. This provides sub-pixel positioning, natural advance width, and Y-direction anti-aliasing. WPF also supports OpenType features.

Animations

• animation based on time. redraws the scene are time triggered. 11
• Presentation timers are initialized and managed by WPF. 11
• Scene changes coordinated by using a storyboard. 11
• Animations can be triggered by other external events, including user actions. 11
• Animation effects can be defined on a per object, which can be accessed directly from XAML markup. 11
• Comes with a set of preset effects such as fade for all controls. 11

Datalink

• WPF.