Mark Rideout's Blog : Silverlight

TechEd Session Building a Silverlight Application Project

Mark Rideout [msft] — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:54:00 GMT

Finally I'm positing the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 project for my TechEd "Building Rich Internet Applications in Silverlight" talk. Sorry for the week delay I took off after TechEd for my daughter's 2^nd birthday party (remember I said that I'm a proud dad?)

Here is the link to the project zip:

http://cid-3a5ca8204ec61147.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/TechEd2008-MarkRideout.zip

Two things to note:

1) I removed the usage of the special "isolated storage" helper class but left the class in the zip file (not included in the project but it is in the directory). The isolated storage apis are a bit simpler from Beta 1 so the helper class really isn't needed. I'll post some more details about the iso-storage apis here in a bit.

2) To use the navigation helper for web browser history navigation you must run the page from the ASP.NET project, not from the simple HTML page. The ASP.NET project is under the TechEd08Web project folder

-mark

TechEd Session Slides

Mark Rideout [msft] — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:49:00 GMT

Below is the link to the slide deck(s) for the two TechEd 2008 sessions. I'll be posting the projects once Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ships this week (since they require Beta2)

http://cid-3a5ca8204ec61147.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/TechEd%20Slides.zip

-mark

Pwnd by the demo gods

Mark Rideout [msft] — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Ok – so my TechEd presentation came and went and all I can say is that "I was pwnd by the demo gods!" Yup if something could go wrong it did. Does anyone else need a café express tee shirt "I was pwnd by the demo gods!"? I think I will wear one around for the next month.

I'll be doing another presentation of the first part (IMHO the best part) on Thursday 6/5 at 11:00am in the Red TLC- Windows Booth.

This time I've paid some extra $$ to the gods and know the low key presentation will work great. Please show up!

Thanks,

-mark

Ok – what about this Silverlight thing?

Mark Rideout [msft] — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:17:00 GMT

As you can see I concluded my "short story" blog post (previous post) saying that I'm at TechEd – and that is correct. I'll be at TechEd 2008 all this (June 2^nd through June 6^th ) week. I'll be presenting on Tuesday about Silverlight 2 so please come by and listen (3pm to 6pm EST in S210). If you are a Windows Forms (winforms) user and are interested in Silverlight – stop by also. If you have followed what DataGridView stuff – way till you see the Silverlight DataGrid. Hats off to Scott Morrison who has been driving that.

Moving from being a Program Manager for Windows Forms to Silverlight has really done one thing: Made me excited again about client technology! It seemed there was a point where Windows Forms was getting outdone by Ajax and html sites. Even though Windows Forms was about "smart clients" and Click Once is a really cool feature for deployment, I felt that application development strategies were slowly giving up on client apps. My involvement (read: job) with Silverlight and Silverlight 2's support for.Net programming are the two things that have me excited again about client development.

A few of the most geekest things that I love about Silverlight in probably the correct order:

· there are no hWnds to worry about.

· Displaying a rectangle doesn't involve an hWnd or me making GDI calls

· Animation

· Easy gradients

· Rewriting TextBox from scratch

· Learning way too much about text and glyphs

Well, I'm going to run through my slide deck one more time before my talk. I hope to be more active on my blog. I know it won't be a "blog entry a day" but more like "a blog entry every now and then"

-mark