I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting four sessions at
Devlink 2010
in August 2010. The sessions are listed below. Hope to see you
there!
Best of Both Worlds: Sharing code and UI between Silverlight
and WPF
Pete Brown
Applications
Swang-AUD
8/6/2010 1:00:00 PM
"Let's face it, the two technologies just aren't yet 100%
compatible. If you're an ISV or just someone interested in
providing both the best desktop and best web experiences,
dual-targeting WPF and Silverlight can be a real challenge. Learn
some tips and techniques for maximizing reuse and minimizing
compatibility issues between Silverlight, WPF and even Silverlight
for Windows Phone 7."
Beyond Hello World: Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Development
Deep-Dive
Pete Brown
Mobility
Swang-S102
8/6/2010 2:30:00 PM
"By now you've seen a hundred ""Hello World"" Windows Phone
applications. It's time to really push the envelope and see what it
takes to build real applications on Windows Phone 7 Series. See
what you can use from your Silverlight development toolbox, as well
as what you'll need to unlearn. We'll dive into the
platform-specific APIs, what works well, and what doesn't. Good,
Bad and Ugly, it'll all come out here."
Silverlight Adores my C64: How I wrote an 8-bit emulator in
Silverlight
Pete Brown
Applications
Swang-AUD
8/7/2010 10:30:00 AM
"The computer that got me into programming was the Commodore 64.
It was an amazing little 8-bit breadbox with great graphics and a
built-in synthesizer. The single most popular computer in the
world, it has yet to be outsold by any other model. In this
session, we'll wax poetic about our favorite brown keyboard, then
dive right into some exciting Silverlight code, including
generating realtime video and sound using MediaStreamSource,
emulating a CPU, dealing with threading and more. You'll learn what
had to happen to translate decades old C++ code into a modern
pointerless safe language, what worked, and what was
challenging."
10 Things Every Silverlight and WPF Developer Must Know
Pete Brown
Applications
Swang-AUD
8/7/2010 2:30:00 PM
"If you're a code-on-the-client guy, Silverlight and WPF are the
technologies to know. However, they can be really hard to get into.
After all, xaml, dependency properties, the binding system - these
are all new to most developers. This session is a crash course on
developing in Xaml-based technologies, and will give you everything
you need to know to get started, the knowledge you'll need to build
on, and where to go once you move beyond Hello World. Interested in
Silverlight or WPF but haven't been able to get past the initial
barriers? This session is for you."