We’ll do a whirlwind tour of the new features in Silverlight 3, plus the basics of Silverlight 2/3. Bring your Silverlight 3 questions

A little bit of nostalgic love from our multi-core high res machines: Learn how Pete ported commodore 64 emulator to Silverlight 3, and how he built a multi-oscillator analog modeling synthesizer using the new Silverlight 3 APIs. Learn about the great new things in Silverlight 3 that make coding fun.

Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 3 including a dive into some of the new experience oriented features like pixel shaders, perspective 3D, animation enhancements, bitmap APIs and improvements to the media stack. Also hear about new Silverlight base framework additions including updates to the style model, data binding improvements, improved resource handling, improvements to the web services stack and the Silverlight 3 out of browser model.  You will see how simple it is to build end-to-end data-intensive Silverlight applications with the new set of features in Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services.  Silverlight 3 includes a number of new features and controls that greatly simplify data entry & validation.  Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.

Silverlight 2 was released in October 2008, Silverlight 3 Beta 1 was released in March 2009. Come join us as we talk about Microsoft’s hottest new web application development technology. We’ll take a big-picture look at Silverlight 2 and 3, and then dive into some of the cool things you can do with this technology. If you’ve used Silverlight before, you’ll find some new and exciting information here. If you haven’t used it yet, you’ll want to jump right into it after this session. Bring your questions and ideas, and we’ll take this session wherever you want to go.

What’s new in Silverlight 3

Silverlight 3 Adores my Commodore 64