Slides from my Houston TechFest keynote

I had a great time today a the Houston TechFest 2007. My keynote focused on Silverlight, but covered the general .NET developer platform as well..

[pptx and ppt versions]

The talk was very demo focus... By popular audience vote, I did the first set of Silverlight demos on the mac.. here are a few screenshoots

piano

Live demo

I followed those up with some more in FireFox... These showed high resolution video (HD) running seamlessly in browser.. Double click on the video and it smoothly goes full screen. The other demo showed 12 videos playing at the same time.. this showed the robustness of the video in Silverlight.. Double clicking on the video expands and rotates the video while it continues to play..

Then I talked about Rich Internet Applications and showed off a Silverlight Airlines demo written in Silverlight+C# on the client and ASP.NET on the server. The demo shows off how easy it is to build rich interactive control sets (like a map, calendar, route visualizer). The code window shows C# code that runs in Silverlight on the client... it should like very familiar to any C# developer..

Run live

Finally, I showed a chess game on the mac. The .NET code runs in Silverlight, the JavaScript code runs in the browser's JavaScript implementation. As you see, the .NET implementation can search way more nodes than the JavaScript version... as such .NET tends to win a lot ;-)

Run live

If you were there, I'd love to hear your feedback... If you were not, I hear they video'ed it... I will post a link when they post it.

Published 25 August 07 11:50 by BradA

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# MSDN Blog Postings » 2007 » August » 25 said on August 25, 2007 3:02 PM:

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# Test said on August 25, 2007 3:49 PM:

I had a great time today a the Houston TechFest 2007 . My keynote focused on Silverlight, but covered

# Sven said on August 25, 2007 5:21 PM:

Hey,

Gonna check the presentation and i'm also looking forward to seeing the video.

I also wanted to let you know that the link of the thumbnail img with the multiple video's playing isn't going to the correct enlargement. When you click that image it goes to the enlarged image of the piano.

# AzamSharp said on August 25, 2007 9:03 PM:

Hi Brad,

It was great attending your presentation today and also very very nice meeting you in person. Thanks for coming to Houston and hope to see many more in the future.

# Sarah said on August 26, 2007 12:28 AM:

your keynote today was entertaining, fun and kept us all awake! I only wished it lasted longer than it did! THANK YOU!

# Truc said on August 26, 2007 1:22 AM:

Dear Mr.!

I am in my first step on Web developer with ASP.NET. Would you like you help me and tell me where can i start.

And that i really thank you to you for sending me your slide

# Ben Scheirman said on August 26, 2007 12:51 PM:

It was great to meet you at the Speaker Dinner. Too bad that it was too loud for good conversation.

Next time I will have to buy you a *real* Texas beer. :)

# Scott Bateman said on August 26, 2007 5:21 PM:

Thanks for coming to Houston. Your session was awesome. Despite the cornucopia of other great stuff released in the past year, I guess I'll have to get familiar with Silverlight now, too! I was trying to prevent brain overload, but SL (anyone used that abbreviation yet?) is sure to be one of the next big things in user interface design.

# Chris Koenig said on August 26, 2007 11:55 PM:

Thanks for coming to Houston, Brad - we all really enjoyed meeting with you and getting some time to chat before and after the TechFest.

# Leo said on August 27, 2007 12:03 PM:

Is there any particular reason for the chess sample to consistently crash my Firefox browser (on WinXP)? The other sample seems to work.

# Moreno Borsalino said on August 29, 2007 11:13 AM:

Hi Brad,

The link to pictures about 12 videos playing at the same time is the same as piano demo. Could you post the correct link ? Is the source code also available ?

# dotnet said on September 21, 2007 1:46 AM:

i really thank you to you for sending me your slide

# Tony said on September 22, 2007 4:18 PM:

The demos (except for the piano) do not work with the release version of Silverlight installed.

# Brad Abrams said on January 20, 2008 5:00 PM:

It has been a while since Houston TechFest , but I just noticed that Zain got some photos up .. You gotta

# Noticias externas said on January 20, 2008 5:39 PM:

It has been a while since Houston TechFest , but I just noticed that Zain got some photos up .. You gotta

# Programming said on January 21, 2008 5:32 AM:

It has been a while since Houston TechFest , but I just noticed that Zain got some photos up ..&;

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