Jaime Rodriguez : training

Robby Ingebretsen’s design for developers MIX09 workshop now online..

jaimer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:26:00 GMT

The MIX09 team just posted Robby Ingebretsen’s: “Design for developers” workshop.

Robby knocked it out of the ball park with his workshop.
This is a must watch (multiple times) for most developers wanting to understand design.
I hope you enjoy it as much as every attendee did. Click on the image on the right to go to MIX site and watch.

We posted three videos as an asx. If you want to download, here are direct links:
    Part One: Process
    Part Two: Composition
    Part Three: Visuals

Enjoy!!

A few comments or disclaimers around workshops:
The workshops and pre-cons are not posted online because they cost extra. So for other conferences, please do not expect this.
In this case, workshops were recorded to test the cameras and accidentally posted on-line earlier, but encoding was not good; we heard from lots of people that they wanted to watch it, including people who had paid to attend; when we asked those that paid if it was OK to post for everyone they agreed, so thank them for it, but again, don’t assume this will repeat again (it is not up-to-me).

What about the other workshops?
Hiking Mt. Avalon (my workshop) should be posted next. The Mix online guys are doing this one at a time so they can say I owe them four favors instead of one; either that or it takes a day to encode and they are working on it.
We are looking at the other workshops to see if the quality is good enough. I can’t promise any other workshops yet; I do know that Molly’s workshop was not recorded.

Announcing the "WPF for LOB" Training Tour..

jaimer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:47:00 GMT

After our m-v-vm training sold out, and most of the march trainings were filled within days, I am delighted to announce our new series of WPF trainings for April/May/June.

Karl Shifflett and I created our best offering to-date: two days packed with WPF, optimized for building business applications, and in your neighborhood. We are hitting five different cities this time!!

Please join us, and please help us spread the word about the training!!

Update on 4/2 -- Added registration tips; a lot of people were wondering about partner requirements; there are none. This training is open to every one. Sorry for asking those questions, we are tagging on existing infrastructure for registration.

Update on 4/8 - Dates are now final and the good news is the events were moved up. The NY and PHX dates changed, but registration opened with right dates so any one who registered saw the right ones!

Here is the full-invite:

Overview
This two day training is designed to teach developers how to create Line of Business (LOB) applications using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Day One is an introduction to the WPF graphics subsystem, the tools used to build WPF applications, and the core UI services: styling, data binding, templating, layout and input-
The second day begins with interop (Windows Forms and Win32) and then quickly dives into LOB topics, including building applications using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern, creating unit testable applications, implementing data validation, and error handling.

After completion, attendees will have a solid understanding of WPF, its advantages over other Microsoft UI platforms, and how to use the M-V-VM pattern to create great WPF LOB applications.

Date, Location, and Logistics

Location	Dates	Click here to register (see tips below)
Los Angeles, CA	4/24 -4/25	www.msregistration.com/wpflobLA
London, UK	5/15 -5/16	www.msregistration.com/wpflobUK
New York, NY	5/29-5/30	www.msregistration.com/wpflobNY
Chicago, IL	6/12-6/13	www.msregistration.com/wpflobIL
Phoenix, AZ	6/5-6/6	www.msregistration.com/wpflobAZ

Registration tips:
If you are not a partner or don't know if you are:
When asked "are you registered" select No. Select "Visiting partner" under Partner Level.
Get creative on the Partner Type; if in doubt, we are all "System builders"

Format:
Instructor-led training from 9 AM to 5:30 PM. 15 minute breaks every couple hours. 45 minutes lunch around mid-day.
Food:
Breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks are provided.

Cost
The training is FREE. You do need to register prior to the event, but there is no cost. You can register for one or two days. Registration is first-come-first serve, sign-up as early as possible to reserve your spot!

Detailed Agenda

Day One:

Lap Around WPF
WPF Tools ( Blend, Visual Studio 2008)
Graphics Subsystem
Layout
WPF Fundamentals and new concepts

Application Model
Dependency Properties
Trees (logical & visual)
Events
Threading
Resources

Controls
Styling
Templating
Q&A with instructors at end of day

Day Two:

WPF integration with Win32 and Windows Forms
Data binding
Introduction to Model-View-ViewModel
Commanding in M-V-VM
Views, Navigation and Transitions
Data Validation
Error handling, Model dialogs, Logging
Unit Testing
MVVM & LOB tips and tricks
Q&A with the instructors

About the instructors
Karl Shifflett is a software architect, former Microsoft MVP, current Code Project MVP and MCAD from Bellevue, Washington. He is currently working for Microsoft on the Cider Team as a Program Manager II. He has been designing & developing business applications since 1989 and transitioned to .NET in March of 2003. In April of 2007 he joined the list of WPF and Microsoft Expression fanatics & evangelists. He is a member of Team Mole that delivered Mole Visualizer For Visual Studio to the world. He is the author to XAML Power Toys and loves WPF LOB. Karl’s Blog: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/

Jaime Rodriguez is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. He focuses on WPF and Silverlight. For the last four years, he has helped a lot of enterprises and ISVs adopt WPF in large scale, mission critical, projects.
Jaime has been doing software development for fifteen years. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at Xerox, HP, Cerner and GeoAccess. He joined Microsoft 9 years ago, he spent the first four years as an Enterprise Architect Consultant in Microsoft Services, and the last five he has been a client evangelist covering Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight. Jaime’s blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer.

WPF Training Resources, March Edition

jaimer — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:19:43 GMT

Karl and I have gotten a good number of questions about the MVVM training. Here are the most common answers:

The training was not recorded; we will do that later (probably after tour below )
We are looking to repeat it, in April/May, multiple locations in the US. The format will change slightly, it will be two-day (first day is WPF fundamentals, still aimed at LOB developers, second day is MVVM).
Once we have figured out dates & locations we will announce it via blog posts. Registration should be easy and current plan is for it to be free.
Here is the HOL lab for the MVVM training: C# version, VB version.

While we figure details on the above training, below are some WPF training resources.

For free online training (at your own pace): 3 days WPF bootcamp from MIX University.

For instructor lead, upcoming WPF trainings and events for month of March.
If you are interested in attending these, feel free to follow the registration instructions below. All of the events are free; as you can see there are some amazing trainers delivering these sessions.

Date	Location	Event description	Trainer	Registration
3/4 to 3/5	Washington,DC	XamlFest (WPF + SL, intro)	Joh Pelak	RSVP via email
3/4 to 3/6	Mississauga, ON Canada	3-day WPF training (intro)	Charles Petzold	Metro, see below
3/4 to 3/6	Irving, TX	3-day WPF training(intro)	Ian Bowler	Metro, see below
3/9 to 3/11	Segrate, Italy	3-day WPF training(intro)		Metro, see below
3/11 to 3/13	London, UK	3-day WPF training(intro)		Metro, see below
3/11 to 3/13	Santiago, Chile	3-day WPF training(intro)	Robby Ingebretsen	Metro, see below
3/17 to 3/19	Vedbaek, Denmark	3-day WPF training(intro)		Metro, see below
3/31 to 4/2	Melbourne, Australia	3-day WPF training(intro)	Josh Reuben	Metro, see below
3/31 to 4/2	London, UK	3-day WPF training(intro)		Metro, see below
4/14 and 4/15	St. Paul, MN	XamlFest (WPF +SL ) intro	John Pelak	RSVP via email
4/29 and 4/30	Chicago, IL	XamlFest (WPF +SL ) intro	John Pelak	RSVP via email

For Metro trainings, the registration is private, feel free to email me directly and I will forward the details.

If none of the above suits your timeline or location, please try one of our training partners: Pluralsight, Developmentor, Wintellect, etc. their trainings are often longer and deeper.

If you know of more events, let me know.. I am sure there are many others.. apologies if I missed some one’s event..