What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight

News      

Silverlight 4 and a technical whitepaper
   

Free WP7 ebook  (Charles Petzold) 

Rumors 

 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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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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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.YN720x12477952&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
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Platinum Sponsors:
Vertigo
Meridian

Equipment Sponsors:
Silverlight Tour

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: 

Silverlight News   

• Example article in a series on MMORPG development in Silverlight.
• File Differencing application written in Silverlight is now on Codeplex.
• Interested in WCF RIA Services from the perspective of Microsoft?  Jeff Handley has a great blog.
• Rich Griffin gives a thought provoking post on how Designers and Developers view Resource Dictionaries differently.
• Silverlight Training on Lynda.com (see last week’s show for info on Walt the instructor).
• Want to call Native/CLR code from a Silverlight 4 Elevated Access OOB application?  Mr. Morrill has code to let you do just that.
• John Papa is saying that Mix is going to be huge.

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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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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.