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• So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next?

  OK, so you've got all the bits downloaded and installed on your machine. What's the best way to start to get familiar with everything we've added to Silverlight 2? Well, you could do worse than start with the thirty page hands-on lab that I spent part of last week frantically working on! This lab takes you through the various steps of creating and packaging an application, figuring out layout and controls, all the way through to creating a mini-game using Silverlight 2. It's a good lab to get familiar with XAML, Expression and the new Visual Studio tools. Once you're done with that lab, there are a number of others that you can go through to add depth to your knowledge, written by Adam and Laurence . Download them here . And if even that isn't enough for you, there are some tutorials here that Jesse Liberty has been working on. Hopefully that's plenty to get you up and running for now! Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:57 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, lab, tutorial, training, silverlight 2.0

• Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!

  People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom training from companies like Pluralsight , Wintellect , Developmentor and IdentityMine , and online tutorials like those from Nibbles or lynda.com . I'm excited to announce another choice today: we've made available a three-day virtual training course that covers all aspects of WPF as part of MIX University, and it's completely free ! This course was delivered here on campus in Redmond earlier this year for a small invited audience, and as we drew up the syllabus and speaker list, we realized we had something special on our hands. You'll hear a keynote from Ian Ellison-Taylor , the general manager responsible for WPF, Silverlight and client platform tools; introductory sessions on core WPF topics from external luminaries like Ian Griffiths Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 5:49 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, screencast, events, silverlight, blend, lab, training, presentation, cider

• So You Want to Give a Silverlight Presentation?

  It's my hope that you're somewhat excited by this Silverlight stuff, and if so, perhaps you're wanting to spread the word amongst your fellow colleagues. To that end, I thought I'd share a couple of presentations that I've given often over the last couple of months. You're welcome to use these slides for your own education or for delivering to others. Creating Rich Web Experiences with Silverlight 1.0 . This presentation provides a technical overview of Silverlight 1.0, explaining the various features and how to use Silverlight to add richer interactions and media to a web site. Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight 1.1 . This second presentation follows on naturally from the previous one, and describes how the .NET Framework can be used as a supplemental set of development technologies to build RIAs with Silverlight. It also describes how you can use a language like C# as a programming language for a pure HTML solution. Anyway, feel free to use these as you see fit. Oh, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:14 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, RIA, training, presentation

• A Summer of WPF and Silverlight Training

  Summer's here, and that usually means a bit of a slow-down in the office as folk take off on vacation. It's also a great time for some new skills development and training, and as there's a smorgasbord of WPF and Silverlight-related courses taking place over the next few months, I thought I'd take the opportunity to highlight a round-up of the choices available to you, presented in the form of an events calendar: Date Location Course June 28th-29th Los Angeles, CA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend July 2nd-August 10th Bay Area / Online Windows Presentation Foundation (Foothill College) July 16th-18th Atlanta, GA Silverlight Workshop (Dunn Training) July 16th-20th Boston, MA Essential WPF (Developmentor) July 18th-20th Brussels, Belgium Programming with WPF (U2U) July 24th-25th London, UK Windows Presentation Foundation (JBI Training) July 30th-August 1st Sydney, Aus. Silverlight (Readify) August 2nd-3rd Atlanta, GA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend August Read More... Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 8:07 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, events, silverlight, blend, training