Thanks to everyone who attended! You can find the deck and demo code here:
http://cid-3e032ee80e5d5e45.skydrive.live.com/embedrow.aspx/Public/ASP.NET/4.0
Slide 40 of the deck has links to get the demo code. Once the next preview release of ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX is published, I will blog about where you can get the samples I demonstrated (DataView / Client Templates).
I will try to get the recording of the developer dinner published within the next week.
Here’s a chance at some free WPF and Silverlight training. XamlFest is an event touring around the US enabling developers to ramp up their WPF/Silverlight skills quickly. Here is the description of the event:
“Are you excited about the WPF but concerned about the learning curve? Have you seen Silverlight but don’t know where to get started? Or are you curious about how tools like Visual Studio and Expression Blend help designers and developers work together to deliver great user experiences? If so, join us at XamlFest!
XamlFest is a two day interactive event where you’ll learn about the platforms the tools and processes used to deliver differentiated user experiences. It’s a chance for you to mingle with UX minded Microsoft folks as well as industry leading design integrators. It’s also an opportunity to pick up a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio 2 for you attendance.
Each XamlFest day will start with interactive sessions by Microsoft and our design partners, followed by a free lunch and a chance to network, have some fun and win prizes. Each afternoon will be geared toward assisted development with instructor-led walkthroughs, or, better yet, come with your own project in mind and we’ll help kick start your very own proof of concept”
More details and registration information is available at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/02/16/you-re-invited-to-xamlfest-dc-march-4-5.aspx
Also note:
“We’re asking that each company send no more than 4 people to this event so that we accommodate as many as possible. We’re allowing only 40 attendees to ensure we deliver a good experience during the assisted development sessions.”
Building off the sample app built during the Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond Developer Dinner, James Chittenden will cover all the basics that every designer and developer of WPF and Silverlight applications needs to know. Building off of preceding developer session, we’ll use Expression Blend to walk through the process of creating and manipulating objects, building timeline-based animations, and converting a typical user interface into one that harnesses the power of Silverlight.
View Recording:
Follow up resources (links, deck, code) from the dinner are available at:
How about a WPF app that is a live demo of all of them? Mike Taulty recently published a ClickOnce app that might tickle your fancy…
I just installed it. PRETTY COOL!
ANNOUNCING – Government Software Developers Group on facebook
Attend this event for your chance to win an Xbox 360
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Xbox 360 will be raffled at the conclusion of the dinner.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:00 PM – Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 5:30 PM
12012 Sunset Hills Rd
Reston Virginia 20190-5869
United States
Event Overview
Background:
In October 2008 at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, the ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap was presented which provided a walk through the 4.0 landscape from ASP.NET and discussed the core ‘themes’ of ASP.NET 4.0 – Web Forms, Core Infrastructure, Model View Controller (MVC), Data and Dynamic Data and AJAX. ASP.NET 4.0, in combination with the .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 will deliver some excellent features that will help make your client side coding easier, maintainable and allow you to add some real flashiness to your web pages. The February Developer Dinner will focus on some of the new features of ASP.NET 4.0 as well as a few of the new enhancements, to provide you with an early preview of the exciting capabilities of the Microsoft Developer Platform.
What You Will Learn:
The evening’s presentation will be a running stream of demonstration focused on the following features and functionality that will be a part of the next release of ASP.NET
Who Should Come:
This is an opportunity to get ahead of the curve of some of the new developer productivity enhancements first hand. If you are someone who builds, architects, or manages development teams using the Microsoft development platform, this presentation is for you.
I’ve been working with a number of partners lately on building Microsoft Surface apps. Infostrat is one of them. They have done some of the best Virtual Earth integration work I have seen so far. Have a look at this video that highlights their work:
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Want to learn what Surface development is all about? Check out the recording of the PDC session:
https://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC17/
You’ll also want to keep up with the Surface blog. If you
http://blogs.msdn.com/surface/
Finally, contact me if you are doing US Government focused work and are interested in getting into Surface development.
LiveUpload to Facebook 2.0 was just released. If you use Facebook, then this is a must have Windows Live Photo Gallery plug in. You can get it from http://www.codeplex.com/liveuploadfacebook.
The Windows Live Photo & Video blog keeps a list of known plugins here:
I’m going to give it a try.
So many people I talk to lately are using things like twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc. I have accounts, but I haven’t really gotten into any of these services yet. I am trying tough. I think this is a sign that I am getting old and out of touch;). When it comes to all this social networking stuff, I still don’t think I “get it” like everyone else seems to. Maybe it is because I spend so many hours a day communicating for work that when I flip the “personal life switch” I just want to relax. Now that I think of it, this has nothing to do with twitter, facebook, etc. Any of my close friends know that I don’t even like to talk on the phone. I prefer face to face socialization.
Ok, so I started this post to encourage people to socialize with me on twitter, but I think I just discouraged you from it! Well, if you are not discouraged and you are on twitter. Feel free tweet me (isn’t that what it is called?), follow me, etc. I’ll do the same.
A question came up last week at the Designer Dinner about unit testing Silverlight applications. I promised to follow up with a link to the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework. I forgot to add the link to the follow up post for the Designer Dinner.
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