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Events
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Look what just arrived at the door!
The author copies are usually in the first set to be sent out.
For folks who have pre-ordered paper copies, you should see those
really soon. The ebooks typically show up shortly afterwards.
Yes, this is Windows 8 XAML in Action. We renamed the
book to better cover its ongoing focus.
How to get your own copy
If you're at TechEd NA 2013 th...
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Last week, at Tech Ed US, I gave a WPF 4.5 overview to a
completely packed room. The materials and video links are
below.
Downloads and Links
Video and Downloadable Slides
Information on AutoHotKey, the tool I used for
snippets.
Demo Code (for WPF 4.5 RC) attached below.
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My main machine uses what one manager used to call "the monkey
keyboard". It's one of those split ergonomic jobs. So, when I go
type on a laptop, especially a smaller laptop like my x220, my
typing speed and accuracy aren't exactly production-quality.
In addition, fast-paced "lap around" demos often require either
a bunch of pre-build projects, or a lot of code snippets. There are
ton...
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On April 24th I helped run the patterns & practices
Symposium 2012 Online on Channel 9. All of the videos are currently up and viewable
on-demand.
As part of the event, I gave a talk on the .NET Micro Framework. I had a ton
of fun doing it, and got to show off a lot of great gear. Take a
look and let me know what you think.
I'll have the demos and presentation pptx uploaded ...
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Join us live on April 24th for our first ever online live
streamed patterns & practices Symposium! Register at
eventbrite to ensure you can attend and participate (and, of
course, to help us gauge attendance so we can properly scale the
streaming for the best experience).
The April 24th online p&p symposium program 2012 will
include keynote sessions and technical sessions ...
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At the South Florida Code Camp I gave a newer version of the
REST Silverlight talk using the just released MVC 4 Beta and
ASP.NET Web API.
This talk shows how to share code between different versions of
the framework, how to use the ASP.NET Web API from Silverlight, and
how to integrate a Silverlight application into an MVC 4 site.
Powerpoint Slides
Attached to this post
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At the South Florida Code Camp, I gave the "Lap Around
Silverlight 5" talk. The slides and code are all available via the
links below.
Powerpoint Slides
Attached to this post
Demos and Examples
The Big List of What's New or Improved in Silverlight 5 - Pete
Brown's 10rem.net
Threading Considerations for Binding and Change Notification in
Silverlight 5
Crea...
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This talk was an adaptation of two chapters from Silverlight 5
in Action. I started with a brief explanation of REST, and then
explained the solution we were going to build during the session.
The idea was to show how you can use REST in place of the heavier
Soap approach in many cases, and make your services accessible to
far more clients.
I also showed how to share model objects bet...
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While at MADExpo last week, I interviewed
several members of the Menchville High School Robotics team. They
brought their awesome robot to demo, and explained how the team and
the program works.
MADExpo
2011 Menchville Robotics Team
I wish we had this when I was in high school! Of course, they'd
have had to be steam powered back then ;)
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I had the pleasure of speaking at Tech Ed Atlanta last week.
While there, I also spoke at the Atlanta Silverlight User Group.
The week prior, I also got to speak at the Hampton Roads .NET User
Group in Virginia Beach, VA. I had a great time at of them, and met
some great developers interested in Silverlight and WPF.
Here are the materials from those events
DEV331 (and DEV331-R) A La...
Published
Monday, May 23, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, Events, Expression-Blend, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, Video, Presentations, Tutorial-General-Silverlight, Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization |
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At DevConnections (Silverlight Connections) this year, I gave a
short session on moving your applications from Windows Forms to
Silverlight.In that session, I covered a little bit of WinForms, a
little Entity Framework Code First, and a lot of code shuffling. I
did a bit with the Silverlight navigation framework, and even a
little bit of Word automation via COM Automation.
Here's th...
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The mid-Atlantic community has come together to create an
awesome developer-oriented family event for June 30 and July 1,
2011: the Mid Atlantic Developer Expo.
Yes, I said family-oriented. We'll have a great expo area with
demos of interesting hardware hacking, robotics and other cool
things from both inside and outside the Microsoft development
community, many of which will be g...
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Join Frank LaVigne on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM for a great BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) Hands-on-Lab session. If you can’t find time to play with the bits at work, or all that pesky summer outdoor stuff is cramping your geek time, this will really help you get your feet wet. More information here.
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Our world-famous DE, Andrew Duthie, (aka the .NET DEvHammer, twitter @devhammer) just pointed out to me that we have a great set of roadshows coming to the area next week (Reston and Richmond). If you want to get the skinny on developing for Windows 7 and IE8, these are can’t-miss sessions. I’m always impressed with the amount of free, quality training coming out of the local Microsoft field o...
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Join us on May 19 at the Microsoft office in Pittsburgh for a double-dose of Silverlight 3: First we’ll talk about all the great new things coming out with Silverlight 3, then we’ll take a quick lap around the Silverlight 3 Commodore 64 emulator I wrote as a proof of concept. This is an INETA sponsored event. Join us at Pittsburgh .NET!
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Reminder to come join us at Lehigh Valley .NET for an INETA Sponsored Event: A Programmer’s Introduction to Silverlight 2 and 3, with a focus on the basics of two, and all the new interesting things coming out in Silverlight 3. Lehigh Valley .NET See you there!
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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 Wo...
Published
Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, Events, RIA, Expression-Encoder, Expression-Blend, Business-Applications, Seema-Ramchandani, Silverlight-Business-Applications, scottgu, WorldWide-Telescope, Marc-Schweigert, MIX09, Synthesizer |
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Here are the upcoming public events where I’ll be speaking on Silverlight topics: Tuesday April 21, 2009 12:00pm (TODAY!) INETA Live Webcast INETA Event Online A Lap Around Silverlight 3 We’ll do a whirlwind tour of the new features in Silverlight 3, plus the basics of Silverlight 2/3. Bring your Silverlight 3 ques...
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I’m excited to be speaking on Silverlight at a number of upcoming user groups and code camps over the next two months. If you’re local, or want to make the trip, please join us! .NET Valley User Group April 16, 2009 Pennsylvania INETA Event A lap around what’s new in Silverlight 3, covering all the great stuff announced at mix09 ...
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Tonight’s inaugural meeting of the CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG has been postponed to Feb 25, 2009 due to icy weather.
Published
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
Tagged:
Events |
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I'm proud to announce that I have been recently selected as an INETA North America
Speakers Bureau member. INETA has fewer than 100 speakers that
cover the North America region, and I'm honored and humbled to be
included in a group that includes some really impressive speakers
and well-known names.
If you run a user group and are looking for someone to speak on
Silverlight or
cover t...
Published
Monday, January 19, 2009 |
Tagged:
Events, INETA |
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If you’re interested in some of the great things Microsoft is working on to make Silverlight business applications easier to build in the post-Silverlight-2 timeframe, join Marc Schweigert and me for a great forward-looking Developer Dinner in Reston on Thursday January 15, 2009. Details and registration link here. Note that the dev dinner is not at the Microsoft Reston facility. Thursday,...