Current Presentations
June 8th, 2010
Introduction to Application Development With Silverlight 4
This presentation is targeted at .NET programmers new to Silverlight or who wish a review of the fundamentals of building an application in Silverlight 4. Topics will include
- Drag and Drop development
- Xaml and Code
- Layout and Controls
- Data, Data-binding, Validation and Async-validation
- Templates and The Visual State Manager (Time allowing)
Windows Phone 7 Programming For Silverlight Developers
- Applying What You Know
- Creating Your First App
- Constraints, Changes, Tricks and Traps
- Beyond Porting: Applications For The Phone and Transmedia
Silverlight 4, MVVM and Test-Driven Development
- MVVM and Silverlight to build test-driven programs
- Understanding Refactoring and Dependency Injection
- A Walk through of a non-trivial application
Are My Three Screens Cloudy?
- Thinking Faster: The tsunami of new interlocking technologies
- Thinking Wider: Browser, Desktop, Phone…
- Thinking Deeper: Agile, test-driven, nimble, decoupled, component based.
- Thinking Weirder: Across screens, complementary applications.
Building A Highly Extensible, Decoupled Silverlight Open Source Application with MEF and RIA Services using Lean, Test Driven Development, An International Team of Volunteer Programmers, and lots of Advil.
This talk will use the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform as a case study in building highly extensible Silverlight applications. Among the topics we will focus on are MEF, MVVM, WCF-RIA Services, TDD…
