Darryl Burling @ Work : Designer

Slides - Overview of Visual Studio 2008

dburling — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:55:24 GMT

Since I've probably done this talk to exhaustion now, I thought I would post my slides for all to get at.

I've still got a few presentations left to do on this topic, once I've done them I'll try and post a screencast of the entire presentation and put it on silverlight streaming - it is mostly demos.

Actually because it's mostly demos, I don't know how useful the slides will be, but people have asked for them so here they are.

They are hosted on SkyDrive here.

Into WPF & Silverlight? Local community coming your way!

dburling — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:34:14 GMT

There is lots happening in the community and this is great to see.

The latest is that Nas Khan is setting up a XAML based user group in Wellington. She's put up a blog post outlining her current thinking. The long and short of it is that she has a few things she'd like feedback on.

The group she is considering starting would be XAML oriented - which means Silverlight and WPF specifically. She is also interested in getting designers coming along, so this is not the usual user group.

If you are interested in this sort of group, head over to Nas's blog post and give her some feedback on the points she's made.

Good work Nas!

Expression Suite and tools now available in NZ

dburling — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:42:40 GMT

I've missed the boat on this one (Nigel and Sean beat me to it), but if have been watching the expression stuff, you'll be interested to know that it is now available in New Zealand.

From Seans blog:

The full family of Microsoft Expression products is now available for purchase in New Zealand.

Expression Web. The professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web.
Expression Blend. The professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows.
Expression Design. The professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces. Available as part of Expression Studio only.
Expression Media. The professional asset management tool to visually catalogue and organise all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation.
Expression Studio. Contains all of the above products! Expression Studio takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression Studio give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality—whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content.
To purchase any of the Microsoft Expression suite of products, contact your Microsoft reseller.

Good stuff :-)

Technical Briefings - over and out!

dburling — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:59:56 GMT

I've just finished the keynote presentation for the Christchurch Technical briefings. Phew! Great to have that out of the way. I can now go back to normality ;-)

The last few weeks have been great in many ways. I've now done my first ever keynote series, which itself has been a great experience.

We've also spoken to over 2000 technical people (maybe including you!) about the value that Windows Vista and .Net 3.0 are delivering to customers today.

For many people is was the first time they've ever been introduced to SoftGrid too - which is a fantastic product and its great to see the excitement this product is generating amonst IT administrators in New Zealand.

We've also shown you some of the future technologies that are coming up - just like this time last year, we have a huge pipeline of products. Hopefully you all got to see Nigel using Expression Web and Expression Blend to create interactive web sites, and maybe even got to see his session on building applications users love (he assures me he'll be posting a video of his session soon).

Lots of people have been interested in Windows Home Server too. If you want more information on this, check out the links in my previous blog post.

We are also going to be making videos of Jeremy and JD's talks, so keep your eye out for those too. Oh - and if you are interested in seeing the BackgroundMotion project, hang fire - its not live yet - the guys have got a little bit of polish to put on it before it is launched - not to mention that we want to document it so you can understand how it works...

Thanks to everyone who came along and for all the feedback. Its been great to be able to present to you all, and I look forward to seeing you at TechEd 2007 (by the way, registration is now open)!

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