Developers for Developers (Devs4Devs) Series - "Silverlight - What, Where and How?" -

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Developers for Developers (Devs4Devs) Series - "Silverlight - What, Where and How?" -

 

This is part 2 of 3.

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Silverlight - What, Where and How?

I've been demoing Silverlight for some of our enterprise customers, conferences, and**local*user groups for several months now.* If*there is one thing I've see it is people are very opinionated about what*MS is trying to do with it.* Silverlight is just the next ActiveX out to destroy the world, right? :D* I felt a video like this would be important to give you insight on where*Silverlight came from not just what it can do.

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In the video I cover several topics:

- Why Silverlight?* What is Microsoft up to?

- Web Development today - the need for User Experience

- What is*this XAML stuff? WPF?

- Good Overview and hands on with Expression Blend

- What you need to get started today and where you can get it. Does it cost anything?

- Demos sprinkled throughout to help reinforce concepts

-*I take*you step by step in creating your first Silverlight application (yes I used 2.0 this time).

*********- Storyboards, Images, setting properties, firing/capturing events, using the VS2008 Tools, even adding Ink support.

******** - Just for giggles I also*show how*easy it is to put the new control inside a*Vista Gadget.

- Lots of links to additional resources and where you can get more help.

 

My hope is that after watching this video you will have a clear understanding of where the Microsoft Platform is heading when it comes to NextWeb and the Presentation Technology Space and also how we got there.* You should also feel comfortable*creating Silverlight content in*both VS2008 and Blend and how you can use it in your projects today.* I know I definitely* had a blast coding with it. :D

 

Thanks,

Dave "DaveDev" Isbitski

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