Archive for March, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
News
Bart Czernicki (@bartczernicki) – Getting started with Bing Maps Silverlight control for Windows Phone 7 (w/ code):
http://bit.ly/bzR2sF
Silverlight 4 and a technical whitepaper
Free WP7 ebook (Charles Petzold)
Rumors
many requests for @John_Papa & Mike Taulty (
@mtaulty ) to do an online version of their Mix10 Silverlight BootCamp!
Microsoft Partners: Silverlight Gives Us Everything We Need
Application of the Week
René Schulte (@rschu) has created FaceLight a simple Silverlight Face Detection library
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Guest Hosts
Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.
Kelly White is an independent Silverlight Consultant. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.
Music kindly provided by YACHT.
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March 25th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight – From Mix10
Mix10 News
- Kelly was hoping we’d receive free phones, but we didn’t
- Windows Phone SDK is out
- Tim’s Windows Phone 7 news
- Tim’s Silverlight 4 RC news
- Windows Phone tools are (and will be) free
- Blend 3 to Blend 4 upgrade is free
Other News
- Mix conference is sold out
- MVVM Light 3 is released
Application of the Week
Seesmic client for Windows Phone 7
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Guest Hosts
Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.
Kelly White is a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.
Music kindly provided by YACHT.
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March 24th, 2010
Interested in what happened at Mix? Want to hear about the new phone? This month, we held off the Portland Silverlight User Group meeting for the Mix conference and boy are we glad we did 
We’re going to have a low-key meeting in the new Lucky Lab and talk about the developments. Do you write Silverlight or XNA? If so, you just became a phone developer. Join us to help figure out what that means. People from Mix will be talking about what they learned and how the world has changed.
When:
Tuesday March 23, 2010 6pm-8pm (tomorrow!)
Where:
New Lucky Lab in North Portland-*
1700 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&ss=ypid.YN720×12477952&encType=1
(*-The pub is so new that I have to use a link to the old restaurant that was there – Roux)
Sponsors
Location Sponsors:
Lucky Lab
Webtrends
Platinum Sponsors:
Vertigo
Meridian
Equipment Sponsors:
Silverlight Tour
March 22nd, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Application of the Week
FlickrLight is an interesting application for browsing images. It has some nice transitions, but the navigation could use some work. Make sure to click on the username in the bottom to dive deeper into the application.
Silverlight Rumors
Interesting Windows Phone Development blog on MSDN. Rumors are starting to become reality.
We-Dig meeting: http://we-dig.org/ Brian attended a we-dig meeting and got to see a WM7 phone in the flesh.
New Windows Mobile twitter people to follow:
@WP7Dev
@WIndowsPhone
While you’re at it, add the This Week in Silverlight crew to Twitter:
@SparklingClient
@brian_henderson
@mckhendry
Silverlight News
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Guest Hosts
Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.
Kelly White is a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.
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March 4th, 2010
Erik is in Minneapolis teaching the Silverlight Tour class. Interested in a Nerd Dinner tonight (Monday 3.1.2010)? We’re meeting at Schuller’s Tavern in Golden Valley at 6pm.
March 1st, 2010
