Steven Porter of Wintellect has published a nice article that lays out the steps to build a basic application with Silverlight 1.1. The article and samples are available here: Managed Code Shines in Silverlight 1.1 If you're trying to get a handle on...

SIEGE - Southern Interactive Entertainment and Game Expo ( www.siegecon.net ) - will be held October 5-7 in Atlanta, GA at the Crowne Plaza Perimiter . Meet the leading video game professionals from across the South! Key speakers include: Johnny...

Are you interested in learning more about the next generation of web-oriented technologies? If so, please join us for a half-day seminar on the new and improved suite of tools and technologies from Microsoft that will better empower you to design and...

My territory as a Developer Evangelist is within the Southeastern US, specifically Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. A recent conversation got me thinking about our most influential bloggers down here. While this is not a scientific survey, I asked several...

Join HUNTUG on Monday August 20th, 2007, beginning at 6:00 PM at the Intergraph Corporation Building 15b Auditorium. Rhonda Layfield will present -'New Vista Deployment Tools -The Good, The Bad and the Undocumented.' As usual, there will be free pizza...

http://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/archive/2007/08/13/upcoming-east-coast-msdn-events.aspx Thanks Glen for posting this.... August 16 - Charlotte, NC August 21 - Jacksonville, FL August 21 - Canonsburg, PA August 23 - Orlando, FL ...

http://www.alabamacodecamp.com/ Stay tuned for more details - lots of things in the works...

While we're on the *Silverlight* and *10 things* topic, Shawn has a very informative article per the link below: http://adoguy.com/2007/08/07/New_Article_10_Things_You_Should_Know_About_Microsoft_s_Silverlight.aspx

10 differences: http://shoutat.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-silverlight-vs.html

Join the Visual Studio .NET User Group on Tuesday, August 14th,2007, beginning at 6:00 PM at the Intergraph Corporation Building 15b Auditorium. Wally McClure will present 'Visual Studio .NET 2008 (Orcas)'. As usual, there will be free pizza, soft drinks...

I can't promise it will work for you, but if you’re interested, here is the order of install that I did, along with links for the bits, to build a box from a base Vista image to a VS2008/Silverlight demo machine :-) My experience has been good so far...

Once again, Asli Bilgin (Developer Evangelist for Financial Services sector in New York), has really outdone herself pulling together a ton of information around a technology. Of course, there is a bunch of other info out there on VSTO, I'm sure. Please...