wpf which features?

Question

I need to prepare a presentation about what's WPF, my audiences are mostly project managers and system analyzers . I intend to show them most important features of WPF like DataBinding . Can you suggest me a list of features which you think will be interesting for my audiences . and also does anybody know any website where I can find presentations about introducing WPF ? thanks

Answer 1

Other answers already mentioned the technical advantages. Since your target group consists of managers, you might want to throw in a few non-technical points:

WPF is the new "Microsoft standard" for developing rich client applications in .net.

• You won't need costly migration to another technology anytime soon and
• there's quite a large user base out there (for example, here on Stackoverflow), so your developers won't be "left alone" when facing technical problems.

WPF has useful features for designing user interfaces:

• It allows the user interface design to be separated from coding (UI designers can use Expression Blend).
• It's very easy to do eye candy that impresses customers during presentations of your products. (Yes, this is important for the sales people.)

(Well, the Visual Studio Designer support is not so great yet, but I've heard that this improves drastically in VS 2010.)