Upcoming Events
Silverlight 2 release party. 11.11.08 in Portland (with Tim Heuer)
Silverlight Tour workshops. Seattle November 19-21, 2008 and Portland December 15-17, 2008
Seattle Developer/Designer Group . Next meeting is November 19th.
Silverlight MSDN Event Seattle (already happened)
If you attended the Seattle MSDN event, here are the slides and Silverlight Source that I presented. *- Do note that the source does not have error checking 
Can Silverlight be used with existing Webforms/ASP.Net (and other) web applications? Without changing the source for those applications? It turns out that it can. Erik shares a trick for integrating Silverlight with Web Forms (and other) applications.
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In this mini-episode, Erik covers some of the exciting news coming out of PDC 2008! You won’t want to miss it.
1) Control toolkit released
2) Silverlight tools RTW
3) Silverlight goes Mobile
Also (he forgot to mention…) that Silverlight will be hosted outside of the browser!
Useful links:
Control toolkit: www.codeplex.com/silverlight
Silverlight tools: www.tinyurl.com/SLtools
UPDATE: Since the recording of this show, we received more information on Silverlight for Mobile. The Public CTP is expected to be available Q1 2009. The great news? You won’t have to change your code at all. For an on-the-scenes write-up, see Chris Hayuk’s blog: http://tinyurl.com/SLmobile
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I’ll be speaking at the MSDN event in Seattle on Thursday, October 30. It’s an hour long introduction to Silverlight 2. If you are going to be there, drop by and say hi.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a Silverlight Tour instructor. I’ve talked to Shawn, and he said that there’s still some availability at the San Diego Silverlight Tour class (November 3-5th, 2008). There’s a lot of exciting stuff happening, and it’s a great time to learn Silverlight. You can find a course outline here.
In this mini-episode, Erik discusses best practices for Silverlight UIs. How do we know what works when dealing with a brand new technology? Erik gives practical advice for the design of your applications.
Useful links:
Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) Low-Fi Usability Testing post: http://tinyurl.com/lfusability
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On our last episode, we discussed logging events on the server, but now with Silverlight we execute a lot of our code on the client side. So what do we do with errors? In this mini-episode, Erik runs through the promise and the gotchas of the client logging application Clog.
Useful links:
Clog site: www.codeplex.com/Clog
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In this mini-episode, Erik walks you through logging on the server. How do you do this? What are the benefits? The flexibility and rewards of server logging are worth the time to implement it.
Useful links:
Log4Net Library: http://tinyurl.com/serverlogging
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Silverlight 2 has been released! Check out this mini episode for the latest information on what’s new and what’s coming:
- New stuff in the release (SSL and improved Astoria support).
- The story with upcoming controls.
- Eclipse tools for Silverlight!
- Open nature of Silverlight development (it’s a surprisingly open environment).
- Speculation on what may be anounced at PDC.
Useful links:
Tim Heuer’s post: http://tinyurl.com/SLRelease
Offline CHM: http://tinyurl.com/offlineCHM
Eclipse tools for SL: http://www.eclipse4SL.org
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In this mini-episode, Erik gives us an overview of XAML. What is it? What are the benefits of using XAML and what’s the secret to making sense of the syntax?
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