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Today, I got some great news: some of my sessions that I proposed for Mix 11 in Las Vegas made the first cut! That means that you can now all vote for them via the OpenCall page on the Mix 11 site!
So, want me out of here? This is your chance to send me to Vegas, baby!! Voting can be done here: http://live.visitmix.com/OpenCall . All votes are really appreciated, thanks in advance!
These are my sessions that made the first selection:
- Data access from Windows Phone 7
Gill Cleeren
Windows Phone 7 apps need access to data, that's a sure thing. In this session, we'll look at what of our knowledge from Silverlight we can leverage into the Windows Phone platform. We'll look at what we need to keep track of on the service side and what actions we need to do on the phone platform itself.
Level 300
Technology: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Services - The session where Hello World is forbidden: Advanced Silverlight
Gill Cleeren
Byebye 'Hello World'. We've all had the time to play with Silverlight by now so it's time to switch gears. In this advanced Silverlight session, Gill Cleeren will show you advanced topics in Silverlight, such as unit testing, profiling, MEF, security and authentication, advanced printing scenarios, sockets etc... You'll learn stuff that you were afraid to ask about before!
Level 400/Silverlight experience required.
Technologies: Silverlight 4 - Advanced WCF RIA Services
Gill Cleeren
Since Silverlight 4, WCF RIA Services has been part of the platform. We all had some time to experiment with RIA Services a bit, didn't we? So now it's time for the serious work. In this session, we won't be creating your basic "Hello RIA Services" application! Instead, we'll take a deeper look at RIA services by answering questions such as:How should we architect our applications around them?What patterns and best practices can be applied? How can RIA Services be used in an MVVM scenario?How can I do validation with RIA services?And much more!
Level 300
Technologies: Silverlight 4, WCF RIA Services - Building custom controls in Silverlight 4
Gill Cleeren
While Silverlight has a rich set of controls on board, sometimes you still need a control that does not exist. In Silverlight, there are more options than you ever considered possible to do this. Varying from templating a control to building a control from scratch, we'll cover it all. We'll also look at building a container from scratch!Level 300
Technologies: Silverlight 4
Love one (or more) of these sessions? Please vote! Thanks!