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Lynda.com Silverlight Essentials Training : FREE

Leon Brown — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:58:27 GMT

Lynda.com in conjunction with Microsoft is pleased to offer 5 hours of video training on Silverlight 1.0 for free. Mike Harsh, Program Manager for Silverlight, covers a good variety of topics from beginning to advanced. Here's the outline:

1. Understanding Silverlight
2. Discovering Silverlight Experiences
3. Silverlight Tools: Expression and Visual Studio
4. Getting Started with XAML, JavaScript, and HTML
5. Advanced XAML
6. Advanced JavaScript Techniques for Silverlight
7. Asset Preparation for Designers
8. Working with Media in Silverlight
9. Creating a Media Player with Silverlight
10. Creating Programmatic Animations
11. Silverlight Deployment
12. Conclusion

Also available FREE are training on Expression Blend v1 and Expression Design v1. Expression Web training available to subscribers. Check it out!

Free Expression Training @ Lynda.com

Leon Brown — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:12:16 GMT

[Thanks to others for this content. :)]

Lynda.com is offering their Expression Blend v1 (6 hours) and Expression Design v1 (6 hours) *FREE* for everyone. Lee Brimelow (www.thewpfblog.com) is the presenter for Blend and Ted LoCascio for Design.

Expression Blend

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=384 – 3 hrs Blend RTM (WPF) training … great for more advanced topics

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=359 - 3 hrs (aprox) Blend Beta … Great for the foundation on Blend for WPF.

Expression Design

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=339 – 6 hours of great content

4 hours of free training from Total Training are also available at www.microsoft.com/expression covering each of the four Expression tools. We are working with Total Training to deliver more content soon.

Enjoy!

Note: Expression Blend V1 supports WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) which is the topic covered in Lynda.com productions. Silverlight is not covered in this training but we are already working on content to be available in the next couple months. Also notice that a couple hours of the training available is based on Blend Beta, however, UI changes and features were pretty much final so this “Beta” training is just as useful as the RTM training.

Silverlight resources

Leon Brown — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:47:00 GMT

Once again, saved by other diligent internal Microsoft folks, a wonderful list of Silverlight resources that are public.

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Silverlight Resources

bits & bytes

· Get silverlight

· Telerik RadControls – 3d virtual rooms using control based framework

· DLR & IronPython

· Silverlight developer reference “poster”

· Forums – installation, troubleshooting

· Electric rain harmony (coming summer 2007) – flash to silverlight converter

· Silverlight 1.0 Beta QuickStarts

· Silverlight 1.1 Alpha QuickStarts

sites

· Main Microsoft site.

· Community site.

· Mix conference

experiences & demos

· Getting started with silverlight - Scott Guthrie demos how to build an app from scratch

· "How Do I?" with Silverlight 1.0

· "How Do I?" with Silverlight 1.1

· Using Blend with Silverlight 1.0

· Community gallery

· Top 3 samples in community gallery

o Silverlight Pad

o Page Turn

o Video Library

· Beijing Olympics Use Silverlight

· Channel 9 screencasts

· Watch movie trailers & videos via Silverlight

· How to do Rich media advertising - example using eyeblaster

blogs

· Scott Guthrie – no intro needed

· Jim Hugunin - chief architect of the DLR

· Mike Harsh – silverlight team

· Lutz Roeder – Expression Blend team

· Delay of silverlight airlines demo

· Ironpython

tech talks

· All recorded mix07 sessions

· ScottGu’s mix keynote and great overview

· ScottGu’s Channel9 interview

· Building Rich Web Experiences using Silverlight and Javascript for Developers

· Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration

· Developing ASP.NET AJAX Controls with Silverlight

· Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight, Expression Studio, and Windows Server

· Building Silverlight Applications using .NET (Part 1)

· Building Silverlight Applications using .NET (Part 2)

· Extending the Browser Programming Model with Silverlight

· Just Glue It! Ruby and the DLR in Silverlight

papers

· Getting started whitepaper

· Silverlight Architecture Overview

MIX07 - Leon's thoughts

Leon Brown — Sat, 05 May 2007 09:06:00 GMT

I am on my way back from MIX right now. At the moment I am in the San Francisco International Airport waiting on my flight to Singapore. MIX was great! Why? The buzz. I have been to a number of Microsoft events, both as part of Microsoft and as an outsider, but I'll say that this ranks as one of the best.

At MIX07 we announced a number of pieces of our Silverlight cross-platform runtime. Silverlight, if you are unfamiliar, allows you to put video and interactive content in to any number of browsers on the Mac and Windows platforms. Very cool. At MIX we announced that we had gone beta with our version1 of the plug-in, but simultaneously announced an early beta (CTP: Community Technology Preview) of the next version. The cool part was the reaction of the crowd. What was the biggest hit was the programming models where we now have x-platform CLR allowing developers to use .NET skills across out entire platform: the web - desktop applications (and servers) - and RIA (Rich Internet Applications). The conversations were great. We (Microsoft) really caught everyone's attention in a good way I feel.

Many people who use Adobe tools have asked questions about the releases and that is nice. Since I first took my position (I am ex-Adobe) I have been always excited by the conversations with designers who are totally amazed that Microsoft ha anything use for them. I think our announcements this week go a small way to showing that we have some good technology that we hope people will take a look at. A great event.

I also had the chance to catch up with many friends, co-workers, partners and new acquaintances at MIX. Many good conversations, both hard and easy, to make the event pleasant. Great fun.

On to ReMIX!