Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at VSLive up at the Mixer on campus in Redmond, WA. The topics were a Silverlight 5 overview, and how to take advantage of Windows 7/8 desktop and other APIs using Silverlight 5 and WPF.

If you attended, thanks!

Attached are the updated slides and demos. Feel free to use these for your own presentations at code camps, user groups, internal meetings, and similar. However, understand that I cannot offer any support for the demos; they're optimized for my own use :)

Silverlight 5 Overview

This sessions gives an overview of the features in Silverlight 5

Presentation Download

• W12 What's New and Cool in Silverlight 5 (pptx)

Source Code Download

• 3d House builder Demo (may still require some simple code and reference changes for RC/RTM)
• See Big List link below for links to most of the demos I used in the talk, as well as a number of additional ones

Related Links

• The Big List of What's New or Improved in Silverlight 5 (with links to my blog posts on the different features and most of the demos)
• Manning: Silverlight 5 in Action (my Silverlight 5 book)

Light up on Windows with Silverlight and WPF

This session shows some ways that both Silverlight and WPF can integrate more closely with Windows.

Presentation Download

• W7 Light up on Windows 7 with Silverlight and WPF (pptx)

Source Code Download

• See blog posts below for other demos
• Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight

Related Links

• Lighting up on Windows 7 with Native Extensions for Microsoft Silverlight
• Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4
• Showing Progress in the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (and a short romp through Windows 7 cleartype settings)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 1: Introduction and Freescale Board Setup and Testing
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API Part 2: Accelerometer as a Joystick
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2
• My GPS etch-a-sketch video on Vimeo
• Enumerating MIDI Interfaces using Silverlight 5 PInvoke
• Manning: Silverlight 5 in Action (my Silverlight 5 book)