Join us on December 2, either in-person on campus, or online via
our live streaming, for the Silverlight Firestarter 2010!
This will be an awesome Silverlight-focused event. From my team,
I'm sending the always-excellent Jesse Liberty. We also have Tim Heuer from the
product team, John Papa and Jaime Rodriguez from evangelism, MVPs
and more. That's a full day of Silverlight training you can use
today plus "The Future of Silverlight" keynote from Scott Guthrie
to give you real information on where we're headed with the
product.
This is a big event, like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to
Silverlight! We've been working on this event for a long time (well
into the spring and summer), so I'm really excited to see it all
coming together. Kudos to John Papa for envisioning this event and
making it happen.
Sessions
Keynote : The Future of Silverlight
Be first to hear the official news about what's coming up next
for Silverlight from Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Corporate Vice
President.
Data Binding In Silverlight and Windows Phone
Jesse Liberty walks us through the fundamentals of data binding,
including binding to traditional and non-traditional data sources,
binding to elements, binding in both Visual Studio and Blend,
binding in code, data conversion and much more.
Building Compelling Apps with WCF using REST and LINQ
In this session we will cover how to build a WCF-based backend
web service to provide data to the Silverlight application. We will
demonstrate the use of LINQ in the service to retrieve objects from
our database, and cover some details of how those objects are
serialized to Silverlight. We will cover the use of faults for
debugging and for driving production logic, as well as
authentication strategies for internet and intranet deployment. We
will finish with a look at how to access third-party
REST/HTTP-based services from Silverlight.
Building Feature Rich Business Apps Today with RIA
Services
Silverlight provides many different options for accessing
distributed data including Web Services, REST APIs, sockets and
more. This talk will walk you through the benefits that WCF RIA
Services offers and demonstrate how it can be used to simplify
n-tier programming and provide a flexible and productive way to
access, validate and modify data in Silverlight applications.
Topics covered include creating a domain service, simplifying
asynchronous programming with the domain context, leveraging object
tracking features, sharing data validation code between the client
and server and writing domain services that can be used with any
backend data access technology.
MVVM: Why and How? Tips and Patterns using MVVM and Service
Patterns
See how good patterns and practices apply to Silverlight
applications on the desktop, in the browser or on the phone. Learn
how to integrate MVVM, Service Providers, design time data (aka
Blendability), into your Silverlight applications to promote code
reuse and create a highly maintainable application.
Tips and Tricks for a Great Installation Experience
Tired of seeing the spinning blue balls from Silverlight as the
application loads? Your users probably are as well. The simple fact
is that it is very easy to customize your complete application
installation experience down to the plugin level. During this
session you'll see understand how Silverlight works with
install/upgrade scenarios and how you can completely customize the
installation experience. Additionally you'll see custom 'splash
screen' demonstrations on what you can do to further brand your
application. If you are building an out-of-browser application with
Silverlight we'll discuss and demonstrate some of the tips/tricks
to provide a good acquisition experience there as well and some
tricks on automatically installing applications.
Tune Your Application: Profiling and Performance Tips
There are some common pitfalls that can negatively impact your
Silverlight application's performance. In this session we'll
demonstrate how to use some of the tools that are available to
profile and identify performance issues. We'll cover the available
techniques with the performance tools that can help you to analyze
your Silverlight application memory usage, rendering and CPU usage
to help improve performance and avoid those common pitfalls.
Performance Tips for Silverlight Windows Phone 7
This will be a comprehensive deep-dive into Windows Phone
performance. We will begin with the threading model changes and
optimizations made to Silverlight run-time to take advantage of the
GPU on the phone; we will then cover the most common pitfalls, the
troubleshooting techniques, and close with the workarounds to
create snappy Windows phone applications.
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many people you expect.
Try the Hands-On Labs
Along with all the great live content, we've put together a
number of hands on labs to help you get a jumpstart on Silverlight
development.
Level 100: Getting Started
- Lab 01 - WinForms and Silverlight
- Lab 02 - ASP.NET and Silverlight
- Lab 03 - XAML and Controls
- Lab 04 - Data Binding
Level 200: Ready for More
- Lab 05 - Migrating Apps to Out-of-Browser
- Lab 06 - Great UX with Blend
- Lab 07 - Web Services and Silverlight
- Lab 08 - Using WCF RIA Services
Level 300: Take me Further
- Lab 09 - Deep Dive into Out-of-Browser
- Lab 10 - Silverlight Patterns: Using MVVM
- Lab 11 - Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
Check back soon on Silverlight.net for more information and
links to the lab content and videos.
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