If you managed to catch Martha's recent Silverlight 2 coffee break talk, you may now be interested in learning a little more.
Our friends over in InnerWorkings have just sent around a couple of their new coding challenges aimed at helping you get up and running with Silverlight 2.
The drills take about 3 hours each and cost $29.99. More details are included below.
If you haven't used InnerWorkings before, you can download some other drills for free as a taster. Topics included are: Object Oriented Programming (VB/C# and 2005/2008); ASP.NET Web Development (VB/C# and 2005/2008); Programming with Visual C# 2003; Programming with Visual Basic 2003; Using AJAX Extensions (VB/C# and 2005/2008); New Features in C# 3.0 Using Visual Studio 2008; New Features in VB 9.0 Using Visual Studio 2008.
By the way, if you happened to miss Martha's talk, the folks over in developers.ie tell me it has been recorded and should be available on the site shortly.
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Drills (Details From InnerWorkings):
If you were at Tech-Ed 2008 in Orlando earlier this month, you couldn’t have missed the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 announcement. Now you can master the many new features of Silverlight 2 with these great new InnerWorkings Drills. To get started, take 10 seconds to download the 4.66MB Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Then select from the 6+ hours of coding challenges we’ve assembled for Silverlight 2 developers and you’re on your way:
Managed Code in Silverlight 2
- Developing and Deploying Silverlight 2 Applications
- Using the MediaPlayer ASP.NET Control for Silverlight 2
- Using Silverlight Panels to Create an Application Layout
- Using the Silverlight DataGrid Control
- Handling Events in Silverlight 2
- Interacting with the Web Page
Working with Data in Silverlight 2
- Data Binding with Silverlight 2
- Implementing a Master Detail Scenario
- Accessing HTTP-based Services using Silverlight 2
- Accessing SOAP Services using Silverlight 2
- Accessing Syndication Feeds using Silverlight 2
- Using Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2
