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Today I think I broke a record: the most popular SilverlightShow webinar, judging from the number of registrations and attendees. Thanks all for joining!
Here are the slides and demos for part 1:
Slides - Demos
Hope to see you for part 2 on February 9th!
On Wednesday 24th August, I gave a webinar on Advanced Silverlight 5 development for SilverlightShow.net. The webinar was attended by a lot of people and I got a lot of great feedback on it. Thanks!
As promised, you can download the slides and the demos from my blog:
Slides
Demos
Today, Wednesday August 24th, I’ll be doing a one hour tour of the advanced new features available in Silverlight 5. I will explain what you’ll be using in 2012 for all your Silverlight needs!
These are some of the topics that will be covered during the session:
- Data binding improvements such as Ancestor RelativeSource, style setter bindings, implicit data templates and debugging options
- Writing custom markup extensions
- Changes in the trusted apps area
- Working with the composition thread
- ICustomTypeProvider
- Miscellaneous improvements such as combobox type-ahead, font changes
- Some topics which are post-beta
The webinar is free of course and you can win a prize!
Registration can be done here.
Last week, I did another webinar for Silverlight Show titled Expression Blend 4 for developers. If you were unable to attend, you can view the recorded version on-demand here (it’s free :) )
The slides can be found here and the demos you can download here.
Enjoy!
Tomorrow, Thursday June 16th, I’ll be doing another webinar for SilverlightShow. I think that this one if the 7th webinar I’m doing for them!
This one is totally devoted to Expression Blend: Expression Blend for developers. That means (sadly) that I won’t be doing any drawing or graphics-related stuff! I’m going to talk about how I think XAML developers can be more productive with Expression Blend instead of only using Visual Studio for their work.
This is the agenda:
- 5-minute guided tour of Blend
- Great work starts with a sketch: SketchFlow
- Push the button: sample data generation
- Binding with Blend: how to use data-binding
- Customization bonanza
- Styling
- Resources and resource dictionaries
- Templates
- A custom control
- Blend behaving badly: behaviors
- Animations and other moving things
- Blend welcomes WP7
- The Blend-bag-of-tricks
The outline of the webinar is here and of course you can subscribe for free. The webinar takes about 75 minutes.
A nice extra is that my publisher (Packt Publishing) is giving away 3 copies of the LITE edition of the book I wrote together with Kevin Dockx. So by simply attending, you could win a book!
I hope to see you online tomorrow!