MSDN Unplugged Roadshow Wellington
Friday, 5 June 2009 @ 9:am - 12:30pm
Product(s)
Microsoft Expression Blend,Microsoft Silverlight,Windows 7
Audience(s)
Developer
Presenter(s)
Mike Zeff, Nigel Parker
Event Overview
Session 1: Windows 7 for Developers
Windows 7 contains many new features for developers that allow you to create very rich applications for your users, including the ability to touch-enable your own applications. This session will cover how you can take advantage of new Windows 7 features using .NET 3.5 to build rich client applications and we’ll also take a look at what’s coming in .NET 4.0. Presented by ISV Developer Advisor, Mike Zeff.
Session 2: Taking your Web experience to the next level with Silverlight 3
Internet Explorer 8 has been released and Silverlight 3 was announced recently at MIX ‘09. This session will show you how you can take advantage of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 to create stunning web applications that can run both inside and outside the browser. We’ll also show you how to take advantage of exciting features in IE8 that make your web site more ‘sticky’ for your users. Presented by Web Developer Advisor, Nigel Parker.
Impressions
A good introduction to Multi-Touch programming for Windows 7 using Visual Studio 2010 and XAML.
Matti had a good question: "When with IE8 support HTML5?" The background to that question is that HTML5 is a new standard everybody else is adopting except Microsoft, because it's a Silverlight killer. No official answer (from Microsoft) exists.
I advertised next weekend's Code Camp.
I won the web-cam draw! All-in-all a profitable meeting.
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GeekPost Weekly Newsletter Volume 4 Issue 7
Right Sizing Agile Development - MSDN Magazine Webinar
Wellington SQL Server User Group Meeting April 2009
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