THANKS! To everybody who attended the Visual Studio 2008 Get Ready Event we recently hosted at the Ft. Lauderdale Microsoft Office back on April 16th. When you look at all the technology/deployment choices available to architects & developers these days - it's no wonder that the topic of "What type of client to target?" becomes a multiple choice answer... To (hopefully) help make these decisions easier for you, here is a link to my highly sought after deck that outlines these technologies and

Silverlight 1.0 is around the corner, and it won't have controls assigned to it upon official release. Yet, this is something very important to the success of Silverlight going forward, as without a control framework there is really no point right? This is where Silverlight 1.1 will come through strong, and win over some folks with its upcoming new pieces to the first iteration puzzle. Yet, already 3rd Party vendors are producing controls today and automatically folks whom have been waiting impatiently

It's been an interesting couple of days for me, as I've meet some developers in both business meeting setting and via social setting (aka WebJam ). In my chats with these developers, they all seem very keen to learn more about Silverlight but have hesitations on it that range from "Isn't it bleeding edge?" to "It looks good but I'm not a .NET developer". I'm not a .NET developer, so I guess Silverlight isn't for me. Wrong, it can be, you can use Silverlight with HTML as if you would with Flash and