Thanks again to Marc Schweigert for hosting last night’s DevDinner in Reston.

My blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog and you can follow me on twitter, or message me on twitter via @pete_brown.

Below are demos I used and links I mentioned or wanted to mention. Tons of good Silverlight links and information below, even for folks who didn’t attend the DevDinner.

Introduction

The “Hello World” demo with a web services was done on the fly. You can find similar examples at Silverlight.net

For information on Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM), mentioned up front when I discussed best practices for real apps (not just demos) here are some links:

• Nikhil Kothari on MVVM with .NET RIA Services
• A basic MVVM implementation by Shawn Wildermuth (MSDN article)
• The original MVVM article
• Prism 2.0 – the Composite WPF and Silverlight Application framework

Media

• Commodore 64 Emulator on CodePlex – MediaStreamSource / Raw Video demo
• Silverlight-based synthesizer – MediaStreamSource / Raw Audio demo
• Hanselminutes and Channel 9 shows on the emulator and synth
• Information on IIS Smooth Streaming
• Microsoft Expression Encoder

Graphics

• World-Wide Telescope, Silverlight version
• Bouncing Plane / Gratuitous Graphics Demo. Note that to compile this, you’ll need the DirectX SDK. I also found that (at least on Win7 and the latest DirectX SDK) some of the shaders wouldn’t compile. You can take them out of the build script and just use the pre-compiled ones.
• Seema’s MIX09 Deep Dive into Silverlight graphics. Seema is the perf PM on the Silverlight team and always has tons of good nuggets in her talks.
• Themes for the Silverlight 3 Navigation template

Developer Productivity

The Microsoft IVC demo is not yet online, but will be soon. In the mean time, here are examples of charting, including some screenshots of the demo:

• Pie and bar chart styling in the Microsoft IVC Demo
• David Anson’s round up of Silverlight Toolkit charting posts, including several of mine and my Expression Newsletter article
• Silverlight toolkit on codeplex.
• Silverlight Toolkit MIX09 Presentation – Shawn Oster
• .NET RIA Services Part 1 MIX09 Presentation – Brad Abrams
• .NET RIA Services Part 2 MIX09 Presentation – Nikhil Kothari
• Online version of RIA Services demo app – Brad Abrams
• .NET RIA Services demo from the ScottGu Keynote at MIX09
• What is .NET RIA Services – Brad Abrams Blog Post

Out of Browser

I did the Out of Browser demo from scratch. However, the C64 emulator linked to in the Media section supports out of browser.

• Mike Harsh’s Silverlight 3 Out of the Browser MIX09 Presentation

Tooling

• Expression Blend 3 Behaviors MIX09 Presentation – Peter Blois
• SketchFlow MIX09 Presentation – Christian Schormann
• User Experience Design for Non-Designers MIX09 Presentation

Other Useful links

• My Silverlight 3 Post Index
• Capital Area .NET Silverlight SIG
• Silverlight .NET the official Microsoft Silverlight community site
• Silverlight Cream – if you pick only one RSS feed to subscribe to, this is it

Slide Deck

The slide deck is available here. I typically won’t present a canned deck (I only modifed a couple slides and the demos in this one), but this deck is just too good to pass up. It was professionally designed with real designers, not just devs or marketing folks, and it shows. If you want something that goes through all the major new features in Silverlight 3, this is the one.

Thanks again to everyone who attended!