Summary
Carl and Shawn got together last month at DevTeach in Vancouver and recorded a pair of dnrTV shows. In this episode Shawn shows you how to create and apply Behaviors to your Silverlight 3 based application.

Bio
Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft C# MVP and is the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering software and training solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He is also a speaker on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and has appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. Shawn is also the author of the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET" as well as the upcoming “Prescriptive Data Architectures”, both for Addison-Wesley. He has been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, InformIT, Windows IT Pro, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel’s Rich Client Series. Shawn has enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years.

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Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo, presents the Hard Rock Memorabilia web site containing pictures with 200 Mp resolution and how one can zoom in to see very fine details using Silverlight’s Deep Zoom. He also shows other projects to underline some of the Silverlight’s capabilities.

Bio
Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc., the 2008 Microsoft "Partner of the Year". Scott is a member of the Microsoft Regional Director community and participates in the Microsoft Partner Architect Council. He is a frequent public speaker, keynoting for Microsoft and other industry events.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Our good friend Sahil Malik returns to the dnrTV screen this week to show us how to easily incorporate Silverlight in your sharepoint site.

Bio
Sahil Malik is a .NET author, trainer and consultant who has worked in Microsoft Technologies since the DOS days. Currently he is heavily invested in Sharepoint 2007, and the .NET framework in general.

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Learn how Microsoft is simplifying the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together ASP.NET and Silverlight. Learn about patterns for working with data, implementing reusable and independently testable application logic, and application services that readily scale with growing requirements.

Nikhil Kothari

Nikhil Kothari is a software architect in the .NET Developer Platform group within Developer Division at Microsoft. During his 10 years at Microsoft, Nikhil has focused on the Web platform, and has contributed to the design and development of .NET and ASP.NET since their inception, as well as various features in IIS7 and Visual Studio products. He is responsible for the server control framework in ASP.NET, initiated and led the development of ASP.NET AJAX, and now plays a key role in the programming model aspects of the Silverlight platform. He is the author of "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components", and is also responsible for starting and working on a number of innovative projects such as Web Matrix, Script#, Web Development Helper, and most recently Facebook.NET. He has presented at various Microsoft and industry conferences. Beyond a deep passion for developer tools and frameworks, Nikhil is enthusiastic and interested in digital photography. His blog is athttp://www.nikhilk.net.

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Come learn about plug-in support in Silverlight 2, and how to build a typical Silverlight-based application using the Silverlight tools for Eclipse.

Shawn Wildermuth

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has spoken at conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about Silverlight, Oslo, Databases and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com). He is currently teaches workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain (http://agilitrain.com).

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Hear how Silverlight and the Microsoft Web Platform make it easier to create compelling and engaging media experiences including optimizing and delivering content in a flexible and cost-effective way. Learn about the tools and out-of-box templates that make it easier than ever to get started in the Media space, to get the most out of your existing media deployments, and to enable designers, developers, and media experts to work together. Also see how Silverlight, Microsoft Expression Studio, and Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services work individually or as an integrated best-of-breed Media platform.

Alex Zambelli

Alex Zambelli is a Media Technology Evangelist for Microsoft. Most recently his focus has been on Web media strategies and consulting on key Silverlight partner deployments such as NBC Olympics 2008 and Akamai SmoothHD. Alex has been closely involved with digital media technology development at Microsoft for over 6 years. He tested and developed software on product teams that delivered Windows Media Player 9, Windows Media Player 10 Mobile and VC-1 codecs before finally putting his hands-on experience to use as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft VC-1 Encoder. Alex was instrumental in ensuring VC-1 codec's continued adoption and success in the streaming media industry.

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Learn how you can leverage Microsoft Expression and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System to improve your overall application lifecycle, decrease your time to market, and ultimately raise the quality of your applications.

Christian Thilmany

Christian Thilmany is a User Experience Architect for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corporation. He has been with Microsoft for over 10 years and has more than 19 years experience working as an architect, developer, and designer.

Christian has worked with a variety of ISVs and Fortune 500 firms in fields such as user experience, design patterns, rich internet applications, composite applications, distributed application architectures, collaboration, and integration. When he is not working he enjoys scuba diving, snow skiing, and spending time with his family along with his two fat English Bulldogs.

Christian is a published author for Addison Wesley and has been a frequent contributor to Java Developer's Journal and MSDN Magazine. You can follow him at blogs.flyover18.com, blogs.flyover18.com/christhi, and www.twitter.com/uxarchitect.

Chris Bernard

Chris Bernard is a User Experience Evangelist for Microsoft. A champion of making design a first class citizen in the world of software and Web development Chris works closely with designers, Web agencies, entrepreneurs, and start-ups to discover new business value at the intersection of business, technology and design.

Chris spent the last 16 years working in the realms of broadcast, motion graphics, interactive, application and Web development holding previous roles as a Creative Director and Practice Leader in the Centers for e-business Innovation at IBM and in numerous design director and strategy roles in interactive and broadcast focused entities.

A passionate advocate for advancing the practice and discipline of design Chris has been published in International Design Magazine and an upcoming article about innovation in the enterprise that will appear in the Journal of Business Strategy. You can follow him at www.deisgnthinkingdigest, and www.twitter.com/chrisbernard.

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See how Yahoo! is leveraging Silverlight plug-in components to deliver a visually appealing, rich, cross-platform user experience without having to re-do their various back-end infrastructures.

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is a recognized digital media industry evangelist and speaker. He presently serves are Senior Director, Systems Architecture for Inlet Technologies. In this role, Smith works closely with premier customers and partners, helping them deploy their digital media strategy quickly and successfully while reducing risks and avoiding pitfalls. Prior to Inlet, Matt most recently served as a key video architect and evangelist for Yahoo!, where he worked for 9 years designing, delivering and managing leading-edge video compression technologies and workflows to execute live events and create other digital media offerings. He was also responsible for working closely with technology partners like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and others, and has been a featured speaker at a variety of video and technology conferences and events. Prior to Yahoo!, Smith spent several years at NBC, first at the affiliate level and later with the network.

Robert Ames

Robert Ames (B.S. C.S. / UT Dallas) has extensive experience with internet-related companies and technologies. Mr. Ames has had the good fortune of delivering a complete ecommerce community site with a start up as well as development, testing, and optimization of existing Top 100 internet destinations. Mr. Ames currently works with video delivery at Yahoo!, the number one trafficked site on the internet.

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Learn how to build Silverlight applications that can be consumed online or on the go. Hear about the new features in Silverlight 3 that facilitate out of browser RIAs.

Mike Harsh

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Learn how to maintain compliance with a growing number of accessibility standards (including 508 in the U.S., WCAG 2.0, and others) by using Silverlight to produce fully accessible RIAs that are policy compliant. See how to use the new User Interface Automation (UIA) technology included in Silverlight by walking through the design and development decisions made when building Buttercup, a Silverlight based DAISY talking book reader.

Reed Shaffner

Chris Auld

You can usually find Chris Auld at events around the world by walking up the stack from his crazy yellow shoes. Chris is the Director of Strategy and Innovation (and too much travel) at Intergen, a Microsoft specialist consultancy based out of New Zealand. Chris travels the world enthusing others about technology. Trained as a lawyer but quickly realizing that it wasn’t much fun- he instead spent his formative years architecting Software as a Service applications for a Dot Com era company and building factory automation systems that to this day make some of the finest chocolate bars in the world. Chris has expertise that spans the Microsoft platform from the new Azure Platform to mainstay enterprise products such as Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM. As a Microsoft Regional Director Chris spends a bunch of time working with the development community around the world and providing their feedback up to Microsoft.

In his spare time Chris enjoys adventure sports such as whitewater kayaking, mountain biking and back-country skiing as well as playing records on turntables to throngs of enthusiastic party goers or usually just to the dog.

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Explore how Expression Blend integrates with the design tools from Adobe's Creative Suite. Learn how to use content from Photoshop and Illustrator to efficiently create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight-based applications, and see a range of useful tips and tricks from one of the core Expression Blend team members.

Joanna Mason

Joanna Mason is a Program Manager for Expression Blend and Expression Design focusing on graphics, animation and user-experience. Enabling artists, designers and animators with powerful tools to create engaging content and interactive experiences has been at the center of Joanna's career focus for 12 years. She has worked on a variety of software applications including authoring tools for interactive applications, multi-player gaming, computer animation and special effects. In the Research and Development group at PDI/Dreamworks, Joanna created software used for feature films such as Shrek and Antz. Joanna started her career at the location based entertainment company Virtual World Entertainment helping develop titles such as BattleTech and Red Planet.

Joanna earned her MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago. She also received her BA in Computer Science from Lake Forest college.

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Come and learn the fundamentals of Silverlight animation. Start at the beginning with a review of storyboards and keyframes, and then break free from storyboards and explore procedural animations. This is where the rubber meets the road and your objects come to life-vectors, frame-based animations, collisions, particle systems, and VR objects.

Jeff Paries

As a Sr. Digital Experience Developer, Jeff Paries is the lead Silverlight developer with Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a leading integrated communications company. Jeff has a strong background in 3D graphics and animation. Jeff is also an accomplished author and instructor in the area of 3D graphics and animation — he has authored several books and numerous magazine articles related to 3D.

An early adopter of Silverlight, Jeff’s interests lie in developing animation concepts and methodologies within Silverlight. As a developer with design experience, Jeff’s mission is to help bridge the gap between design and development. His latest book, “Foundation Silverlight Animation” works to further this goal through a scenario-based approach.

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See how the CLR team slimmed down the size of the runtime into a small, zippy download, the Core CLR, yet kept the experience .NET developers have come to love.

Brandon Bray

Brandon Bray is Senior Program Manager Lead in the Common Language Runtime and responsible for the foundations of the .NET technology stack. His team works on the garbage collector, code generators (JIT, NGEN), concurrency, operating system features, and the Core CLR. Bray has been working in Microsoft's Developer Division for eight years, and most notably designed the C++/CLI programming language.

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Come hear how and why to create rich experiences for Silverlight using Expression Encoder using both VC-1 and H.264 CODECs. Learn about video encoding settings, how to encode for Smooth Streaming scenarios and working with player templates for effortless Silverlight experiences.

James Clarke

James Clarke has been a Program Manager on the Expression Encoder team since before V1 shipped. He has an extensive background in digital video and internet media with over 18 years spent in the industry. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, he worked first as a Program Manager at Avid Technology, one of the pioneers of non-linear video editing, and later co-founded Soho, London based ROOT6 Ltd where he was architect and principal developer on the successful ContentAgent encoding product. He is currently co-authoring a book on Expression Encoder for Sams Publishing.

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Come hear how simple it is to build end-to-end data-intensive Silverlight applications with the new set of features in Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services. Explore Silverlight improvements that help to enable rapid development for business applications and to make your development process more productive.

Brad Abrams

Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the Application Framework team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that powers breadth Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework.  Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework and Windows Forms. 

Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library).  Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard.  

Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines. 

Brad graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Science.  Find recent musings from Brad on his blog at:http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA/

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Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 3 including a dive into some of the new experience oriented features like pixel shaders, perspective 3D, animation enhancements, bitmap APIs and improvements to the media stack. Also hear about new Silverlight base framework additions including updates to the style model, data binding improvements, improved resource handling and improvements to the web services stack. This session will also introduce the Silverlight 3 out of browser model.

Joe Stegman

Joe Stegman is a Group Program Manager of the Silverlight runtime team and is responsible for delivering technology enabling richer experiences on the web. Prior to working on Silverlight, Joe spent several years as a Lead Program Manager on the Windows Forms team where he focused on the visual designers and the Windows Forms data APIs. Joe has worked at Microsoft since 1998 and spent his first several years as a Microsoft consultant consulting working with large corporations in the development and delivery of e-commerce web sites.

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Learn how to add instant stickiness and drive new users to a Web site while uncovering the hidden social network within. Hear how Effective UI quickly and easily added these capabilities to its customers' existing Microsoft Silverlight projects using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit.

Jordan Snyder

At EffectiveUI, Jordan builds web applications using Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. She has been using Silverlight since v1.0 and is a member of Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0Beta TAP (Technology Adoption Program) and Silverlight 3 EAP (Early Adoption Program). She is a musician, interactive artist, snowboarder, avid reader and engineer who is interested in everything from architecture to physics to spirituality.

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Come learn how to build a Silverlight business application today with the new UI features including DataGrid, DataForm, validation and navigation. Also see an example of how to connect to services using a LINQ enabled, Entity Framework-backed, data management solution.

Ward Bell

Ward Bell is Vice President of Technology at IdeaBlade where he is responsible for the product direction of the DevForce .NET application framework, a product targeting smart client development. That product extends the ADO.NET Entity Framework with n-tier, client caching, and Silverlight support. Ward spent much of the last 30 years programming line-of-business applications for numerous companies including several of the Fortune 100. He is a Solutions Architect MVP. His blog is Never In Doubt.

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See how China's Tencent Corporation built a next-generation QQ Instant Messenger client using Microsoft Silverlight. Hear how one of the largest communities in the world with 400M+ active users and 50m+ concurrent users got to massive scale with Silverlight while leveraging UX to make more money with their services.

Steve Zheng

Steve Zheng, Ph.D., Chief Software Architect, Head of Tencent Research. Before joining Tencent, he worked in Microsoft, Redmond, for eight years.

Dr. Zheng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking Univeristy, and Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, majored in Computer Science.

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Come see how to debug Silverlight applications using Fiddler, Internet Explorer 8, and the Web Development Helper tools. Learn how using the right tool save precious time and effort whether dealing with cross domain policy recognition, RESTful response analysis, or just a general error.

John Papa

John Papa (ASPSOFT), author of book Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly, is a Microsoft C# MVP, INETA speaker, member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for ASPSOFT who specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies. John has written over 60 articles for MSDN Magazine and authored several books on data access technologies including Silverlight, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, WPF, XML, and SQL Server. He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive and DevConnections, and viewed on MSDN Web Casts. You can always find John at johnpapa.net.

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Learn the background of Xbox "Lips" and "Fable II" campaigns from brainstorm to delivery. This session highlights interactive video and gaming experiences using Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft .NET, and Windows Mobile technologies under tight production timelines.

Charles Duncan

Charles Duncan is the Technical Management Director at AKQA. An accomplished interactive technology professional, Charles has  over 10 years experience in technical development management and creative concepting. Charles is focused on technical and creative innovation for brands such as Xbox, Nike, and Gap, earning numerous honors including: Cannes Cyber Lions, Clios, One Show and FlashForward.

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Learn how to use Expression Blend to design great user experiences, from concept to production, with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. See how Expression Blend makes design workflow faster, easier and richer, and explore how designers can lead the interactive experience throughout the design process.

Celso Gomes

Christian Schormann

Christian Schormann is the Group Program Manager for Expression Blend, responsible for product planning and definition of Expression Blend and Design, and for long term product strategy of the Expression suite as a whole. Christian brings to Microsoft his background in high-end video editing and compositing systems (including Jaleo, Softimage|DS, and Avid Liquid). He has also been involved with 3D animation and music software. He has been involved with many aspects of software development hands-on, including product design, development, various levels of management, CTO-style work, and business and strategy planning.

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Come see how to build a continuum of client applications including HTML, AJAX, ASP.NET, Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that all consume the same Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. Learn how to reuse as much code as possible, how to optimize the development process, and how to address key logistical issues like external servers and cross domain communication.

Laurent Bugnion

Laurent works as a senior user experience developer for IdentityMine, one of the leading companies for Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Surface, Windows 7 and generally User Experience.

In October 2008, Laurent wrote the book "Silverlight 2 Unleashed", published at Sams. This book is a complete tutorial about Silverlight. Privately, he codes in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF; and writes on http://www.galasoft.ch where he publishes articles, prototypes and demos related to the mentioned technologies. In 2008, Laurent earned a MCTS for WPF. 2009 is his 3rd year as a Microsoft MVP (Client App Dev).

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Having some programming knowledge as an interactive professional can set you apart from the rest. Come learn the essentials of C# for creating interactivity in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation in this session, and add another weapon to your design arsenal.

Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith is vice president of Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI), the training division of Aquent. Jennifer is the author of more than ten books on electronic publishing, including Dummies books on Web, interactive, and digital imaging software. She has more than two decades of design experience and delivers training for interactive, web, and creative organizations around the world. Prior to founding AGI she worked in advertising as an art director. Jennifer bridges the gap between technical and creative, working easily with both developers and designers. She has a unique ability to translate technical skills to address business issues, allowing organizations to use creative technology to achieve their business objectives. She developed the first ever Silverlight for Designers training program, which has been presented at interactive agencies around the world and also for designers at Microsoft’s headquarters. Jennifer’s has also created many Silverlight training tutorials that prepare users for the PhizzPop Design Challenge.

Fred Gerantabee

Fred Gerantabee is an Emmy award winning interactive designer, web developer and author based in New York City, and serves as training manager for Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI). Prior to joining Aquent, Fred was an interactive producer with ABC/Disney Interactive, working on ITV applications for hit shows such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the Academy Awards and Toon Disney’s JETIX Cards Live. Fred is the author of several books web and interactive technologies, and works extensively in helping bridge the gap between designers and developers. You can find his tutorials on the PhizzPop Design Challenge site as he dissects some of his Silverlight video game projects, helping users understand how to customize and skin games. While he geeks-out with the best developers creating Silverlight and other interactive projects, he gets his creative juices cranking with his guitar and band as he plays weekend gigs around New York City.

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Learn how to set performance goals with your design and development teams, build control-heavy applications, leverage the software and GPU pipelines for graphics and media, and how to profile your application.

Seema Ramchandani

Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform’s performance. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build WPF’s Controls and Panel system, and then moved to work on the platform’s hardware acceleration story. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, Seema worked on brain-computer interfaces at Brown.

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Learn how to add instream and companion ads (in Flash and Silverlight formats) to a Silverlight media player application. See real-world examples of how to use IAB's VAST and VPAID guidelines as well as other methods to display instream video advertisements along with companion display ads.

Nicholas Brookins

Nicholas Brookins is a Product Architect at Akamai Technologies, the leading managed services provider for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Nick provides technical design for the Akamai AdaptiveEdge streaming solution, based on Microsoft Smooth Streaming for Silverlight. He is also the lead developer for the Silverlight version of OpenVideoPlayer, an open source project that aims to provide a foundation for stable and scalable web-based video players, available at openvideoplayer.sf.net.

Prior to his role at Akamai, Nick was the CTO of SAM Systems, where he played a key role in development of patent-pending methods for improving video quality and efficiency for the company's real-time surveillance video solutions. Aside from software development, Nick enjoys playing guitar and spending time at the beach in San Diego where he lives with his wife and daughter.

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Come hear how to work with external REST, SOAP, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services from Silverlight. Learn how to securely and efficiently communicate with services using Binary XML, debug services with improved Faults support, and implement server-to-client "push" using the new Add Service Reference for Duplex functionality.

Eugene Osovetsky

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Hear about the future plans for Expression Blend. See how Expression Blend improves the productivity of visual designers, providing better access to data and enhanced tools for interactivity. Learn how designers can be deeply engaged and remain in control of the creative decisions while enjoying improved collaboration with developers throughout the project lifecycle.

Douglas Olson

Douglas K. Olson is General Manager of the Expression Blend and Design products at Microsoft. With over 16 years of leadership experience at Adobe and Macromedia, he brings to Microsoft an extensive background in inspiring and driving the development of foundational products in the Creative Professional market. These products include Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady and Macromedia Authorware and Sitespring. Doug holds a degree in Business Management from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Christian Schormann

Christian Schormann is the Group Program Manager for Expression Blend, responsible for product planning and definition of Expression Blend and Design, and for long term product strategy of the Expression suite as a whole. Christian brings to Microsoft his background in high-end video editing and compositing systems (including Jaleo, Softimage|DS, and Avid Liquid). He has also been involved with 3D animation and music software. He has been involved with many aspects of software development hands-on, including product design, development, various levels of management, CTO-style work, and business and strategy planning.

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Come hear about the Silverlight 3 rendering pipeline, and learn how to enhance your application experience with the latest additions to the Silverlight graphics APIs.

Seema Ramchandani

Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform’s performance. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build WPF’s Controls and Panel system, and then moved to work on the platform’s hardware acceleration story. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, Seema worked on brain-computer interfaces at Brown.

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Come hear how creating great user experiences for business applications can result in both improved productivity and significant support cost savings. Learn how to use proven user experience patterns in cost effective ways with Silverlight 3, including rich data display, data input and advanced data validation, and application navigation.

Corrina Black

Corrina Black is the lead designer for the Silverlight platform and has recently been focused on understanding the unique value Silverlight enables for business applications.

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See how to deliver media with the best user experience in a cost-effective, scalable, and highly manageable way. Learn how to expand your reach and improve quality using Smooth Streaming, how to save on bandwidth, and how to maintain control when using Progressive Download. Understand how IIS Media Services and WMS light up the media ecosystem from encoding to playback.

John Bishop

John Bishop is a co-founder of Inlet Technologies and currently serves as Inlet’s senior VP of strategy and business development. He is recognized as a digital video industry expert with well over a decade of experience in the digital media space. Under Mr. Bishop’s leadership, Inlet has grown from industry pioneer to industry leader, and has developed strong partnerships with other leading companies in the space, including Microsoft, Akamai and Adobe. Mr. Bishop’s strategy at Inlet has been to focus on development of products that offer greater automation, higher media production capacity, greater efficiency and an overall higher quality of media experience. He has emphasized the development of software that minimizes an organization’s need for onsite video encoding expertise. Prior to joining Inlet, John served as the Director of Business Development and Product Management for Osprey Technologies (acquired by ViewCast Corporation). There, he identified and developed key market partnerships and opportunities resulting in multiple consecutive revenue growth quarters. He has contributed to numerous digital media publications, and authored white papers and industry presentations.

John Bocharov

John A. Bocharov is a Program Manager on Microsoft's IIS team, with a focus on Smooth Streaming and related Media technologies. After graduating from UC-Berkeley with a degree in Bioengineering, he opted to heed the call of Software and signed on with a small dot-com in San Francisco. He joined Microsoft in 2005 as a part of the Data Programmability team, where he delivered the Data Access Components for Windows Server 2008 and helped define the 1st release of the SQL Server Driver for PHP. John has been in his current Media-focused role for a year. He encourages listeners to follow up on any questions they may have by posting a comment on his blog (http://blogs.iis.net/jboch).

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Come hear how to structure Silverlight applications to support a sometimes connected scenario, and learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of implementing network detection.

Peter Smith

Peter Smith is a new Program Manager at Microsoft in the .Net Networking group but an long time networking developer on a diverse set of applications ranging from networked simulations and statistical programs to occasionally-connected, self-updating catalog programs for a popular gaming company.

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Take a tour of new Visual Studio 2010 enhancements that will help developers build more compelling applications and be more productive. See demos that focus on Silverlight apps and also directly apply to WPF apps.

Mark Wilson-Thomas

Mark is a Program Manager on the "Cider" team, which builds the WPF and Silverlight Designers in Visual Studio. He is responsible for the layout and visual designer features of the designer. Prior to joining developer division Mark worked in Microsoft Services as a Development Lead, building large scale web-based UIs for the UK Government, the BBC and others.

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Come hear how Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. Learn how to use the Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs, how to develop using combinations of Java, Ruby and PHP in addition to the standard Microsoft languages, and how Microsoft's commitment to openness with the Azure Services Platform and the use of claims-based identity supports heterogeneous identity systems.

Vijay Rajagopalan

Vijay Rajagopalan is a Principal Architect in the Microsoft Interoperability team with the Platform & Interoperability Strategy division at Microsoft. His team is chartered to create & drive Interoperability Initiative across the company. His team collaborates with the Standards & Competitive Strategy teams at Microsoft on a number of projects – some recent interoperability efforts that were driven by his team include the Silverlight Tools for Eclipse, Cross Platform SDK for Azure Services Platform, OpenXML, Federated Identity & CardSpace.

Vijay has about 15 years of experience in the enterprise space, has worked with customers and partners such as Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Intel, Fujitsu, Microfocus, Accenture among others; he has been at Microsoft for over 10 years, most of it in the enterprise space and spent 3 years as a Architect for Visual Studio Extensibility. His areas of interest are broadly in Software + Service, Formats & Protocol Interoperability, Federated Identity, data management, Domain Specific Languages, management of metadata and operational management but most of all in driving business value from technology investments.

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Discover how your team of Web designers and developers can add Silverlight to their toolbox without starting from scratch. Learn how to add the Microsoft Expression suite to your creative team's process and how to get your team of UI Developers, Flash Programmers, and Microsoft .NET experts working with Silverlight.

Noah Gedrich

Noah oversees all BLITZ server-side engineering, Flash and Silverlight development, integration practices, functional and technical quality control, and technical project development.  Noah serves as the main Engineering and Software Development contact for the Business Development, Marketing and Account Management groups. 

Before joining BLITZ, Noah designed, developed and managed the technical architecture of database-driven movie marketing and social networking community websites both flash and html-based.  His work on the website for the theatrical release of “Terminator 3,” began the trend of using user-generated content in web-based marketing for films.  The culmination of that work was developing the web-based fan club for the cult hit Napoleon Dynamite, which topped 300,000 registered users in 6 months for Fox Searchlight Pictures.   Noah’s work has garnered him numerous Clio, One Show and SXSW awards as well as an Award of Excellence in Communication Arts Interactive Annual. 

Noah’s experience ranges through concepting, architecture and development of web sites and site features for clients in fields as varied as automotive, entertainment, finance and consumer product.  He has also been responsible for developing numerous internal business tools as well as budgeting, setting up and maintaining strategic corporate IT initiatives.  Prior to kicking off his “professional” career, he taught web-development to underclassmen at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in his role as a teaching assistant.

Noah is also a classically trained violinist and has played in many of the eastern seaboard’s largest concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, The Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Ken Martin

As Chief Creative Officer, Ken is recognized as a thought leader for the experience economy as he works with top brands to identify trends and opportunities, fuse insights with ideas, and redefine the audience’s experience. He works with BLITZ’s top client list to conceptualize results-driven, brand-centric, campaigns and applications that entertain while they inform. With a diehard focus on quality and visual impact, Ken’s purpose is to drive the agency’s creative mind-set and vision from original concepts through final deliveries, setting the strategies for finish-line solutions which deliver measurable results.

Ken has been involved in the conceptual development and design of interactive campaigns for clients such as Adobe, Microsoft, Google, GE, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., Electronic Arts, LucasArts and many more. His talents and experience have led to great success for client projects, which have won countless awards including OneShow, KeyArt, London International Advertising Awards, SXSW, Flashforward Film Festival, FWA, ADDYs, HBO Comedy Festival. 

Prior to BLITZ, Ken co-founded Silicon Valley-based, eStudio, an innovative interactive content developer. He was instrumental in raising $5M in venture capital. An avid entrepreneur even at age 15, Ken founded SignWorks and sold the business at age 18. Eleven years later, SignWorks is still going strong in the digital sign industry.

When not at the office, Ken resides in Southern California with his wife, Ruth, and their three sons, Ethan, Gavin, and Colin. Ken has also been rumored to shred at Guitar Hero.

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Come learn how the Silverlight Toolkit can help jumpstart development of stunning Web experiences, and learn how to use the latest controls to create more immersive, more manageable user experiences. Using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend, explore advanced debugging and unit testing techniques for building components that work across Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Shawn Oster

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Learn how to encapsulate structure, animation, and logic inside custom controls that handle theming, layout, validation, and data binding. Using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend, explore advanced design, coding, debugging, and testing techniques for building components that work interchangeably in Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Karen Corby

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Find out about Jellyfish, a collection of modules that you can install on your server to give your customers the ability to build, modify, and create Deep Zoom collections and provide useful Silverlight functions to developers. Hear about how the service has been used on real Web sites, and learn how to build your own server-side, scalable, easy to use enterprise Deep Zoom Solution.

Allan Li

Allan Li is the founder and lead creative development for Next Experience Interactive(http://www.nxmix.com) which provides its clients the highest quality digital marketing, software ,and rich application solutions. Allan is a Microsoft Expression MVP. He has 10 years experience in web and software design. With his wide range of skills in both design and development, he is passionate about design, usability, technology and delivery of next-generation web application solutions.

Ken Azuma

Ken Azuma has dedicated the most of his work life to Rich?Internet Application development project using various RIA technologies. He is working like catalyst to blend the designer, developer and business decision maker areas of RIA project.

After years of considering how developers and designers can work together to deliver a high quality product, Ken's perspective on RIA development has widened from that of a programmer to that of an architect. Ken inspires talented people from across the developer and designer communities with his vision of RIAs and the possibilities they offer.

As senior experience architect at 2ndFACTORY Japan, his enthusiasm for Rich Internet Application will result in more bridges being built between the designer and developer worlds and more inspirational RIAs when the talents of these two groups are brought together. And now he convinced about importance of business Aspect of RIA, is thinking about project workflow and results that be appreciated by business decision maker, too.

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Come see the new Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP, and dive deep into how to build the next generation of mapping applications with Virtual Earth and Silverlight.

Chris Pendleton

Chris Pendleton is the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Pendleton has been with Microsoft for over 6 years and has been in the location-based services and GIS industry for over 10 years. Mr. Pendleton specializes in all things Virtual Earth and Microsoft geospatial including, but not limited to technological deep dives, web and mobile application architecture and development, licensing arrangements and 3rd party revenue opportunities. Mr. Pendleton has a long history of application development, architecture, consulting and deployment of large scale web-based applications, especially those using geospatial intelligence. Mr. Pendleton also authors the Virtual Earth Blog on MSDN. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from San Diego State University.

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Come get an in-depth understanding of the compatibility between WPF and Silverlight. Learn the relationship between WPF and the various subsystems of Silverlight including: XAML parsing and serialization, control instantiation, styling and templating, layout, rendering, and more. Also, learn how to build applications that fully exploit both Silverlight and WPF.

Jeff Wilcox

Jeff is a Software Development Engineer on the Silverlight Toolkit team at Microsoft. Jeff created the Silverlight Unit Test Framework and the Silverlight Toolkit's AutoCompleteBox control. Before joining the Microsoft ASP.NET team in 2005, Jeff was a freelance open source developer, also founding YouTrip.com and MaizeWeb.com. Jeff is an alumnus of the University of Michigan, and maintains a blog at http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/.

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Learn how to build a social networking site using Microsoft Silverlight. See how to mash up existing services, how to tag and store data in back-end services, and how to build a rich and engaging experience.

Gilbok Lee

As CTO, of Huge Flow Corporation, Gilbok Lee is leading RIA Service Team, and his team focuses on Silverlight and Mashups (esp. Live Map), trying to apply those to SNS. Prior to founding Huge Flow, he studied Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University and worked for PCB Industries for 5 years as an MFC Programmer developing PCB CAD/CAM. For pleasure, he enjoys putting boiled rice into milk.

Miho Heo

The Product/PJT manager of Hugeflow - MIHO, with years of industry experience, had worked in product planning & development for Samsung electronics and was responsible for Yahoo! Korea international PM. Also she founded weenu Inc. (Art community) in 2006.

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Learn how to use the Microsoft Visual Basic/C# DLR integration to test a statically-typed application with IronRuby. See how to develop a Silverlight application end-to-end with IronRuby, and how programming with dynamic languages helps improve the dev experience.

John Lam

John works on the Open Source IronRuby compiler at Microsoft. He also helps folks around the company understand how to work together with the Open Source community to make better products for our customers.

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Don't miss Vertigo's tour of three major Microsoft Silverlight applications, including PlayboyArchive.com, KEXP and more. Highlights include Deep Zoom, Live Video, "Blendability" tips, VSM hacks, perspective transforms, SEO and deep linking tips for SL2 and SL3, out-of-browser and disconnected experiences, and more.

Scott Stanfield

Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo, a design and development agency in the San Francisco area. In 2008, Microsoft awarded Vertigo the Microsoft Partner of the Year for their ground-breaking Silverlight work on the Hard Rock Memorabilia experience. Other notable Silverlight projects include the Democratic National Convention in 2008, the Presidential Inauguration and CBS March Madness. Oh, and the MIX 2009 site.

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John walked through some of the cool stuff they are doing with IronRuby. He started out showing how you can host the ruby engine in a C# application, in just a couple lines of code he wrote a WPF irb clone. He also showed how with C# 4.0 you can run the ruby engine, send it code, then reach in and get specific variables and pull them back out (using the dynamic keyword).

He went on to show accessing C# from IronRuby and even monkey patching a CLR class from IronRuby, which was pretty cool. Corey Haines asked to confirm and you can even undef methods from a CLR class from IronRuby. (of course they would only be modified from a DLR perspective)

John also shared some interesting statistics, I believe they were that the language rubyspecs were around 93% passing and the lib specs were around 78% complete. He also mentioned that performance right now is mostly better than MRI with some that is worse but that they haven't spent alot of time on it yet. IronRuby and the DLR clock in at only 2MB when compressed, which is fairly impressive.

There was a question about 1.9 which he basically said they weren't even thinking about yet, which is worrisome since it will probably be out fairly soon and I would at least like to hear that they have a plan on how to implement it. (otherwise they will always be behind) (c) James

Author: John Lam

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Summary
In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2008, Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield discusses Silverlight. Topics covered include the Silverlight feature set, the development paradigm, developer/designer workflow, future changes in both versions 2 and 3, Silverlight adoption, cross-platform support, the future of RIAs, cloud computing, and business RIAs.

Bio
Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc., the 2008 Microsoft "Partner of the Year". Vertigo builds cool software. Scott is a proud member of the Microsoft Regional Director community and participates in the Microsoft Partner Architect Council. He is a frequent public speaker, keynoting for Microsoft and other industry events.

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Summary
Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in and runtime for building rich internet applications. Mike Taulty walks through Silverlight basics such as the UI Model progresses to building applications with both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio.

Bio
Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft, UK. Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Content:

• PHP and Microsoft
• Demos!!!
  
  • SQL Server PHP driver
  • Open XML + PHP
  • Cardspace + PHP
  • Live Services + PHP
  • Silverlight + PHP
  • Server Core + IIS7 + PHP + MySQL

Presenter: Chris Ismael, Platform Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore.

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HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, CSS and most of the web development stack have been often cited as proof that "worse is better", but today divergent views of the web are emerging as we find out that that worse isn't *always* better, that ubiquity and openness are assailable advantages, and that the web's derivative value streams already are routing around the flaws in HTML's semantics. This talk looks at the divergent views being fielded today. GWT, Flex, and Silverlight all take the view that the web is a problem to be fixed, giving developers serious power to accomplish more in less time. The other view, embodied by Safari, HTML 5, Gears, and Ajax libraries like Dojo suggests that there is an evolutionary path which still provides a place for upgrades to existing semantics and practice.

Alex Russell (SitePen)

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